According to Mat Piscatella "Next Gen consoles sales will not have a major effect on Switch sales"

[HoangNhatAnh]

DonFerrari said:

HoangNhatAnh said:

I think they are in some way because both are action open world, both are some of biggest games in 2017, both released in early 2017

Sure I can conceed they compete in some way, being similar genre/idea/gameplay (sure plenty differences exist). But I don't think a significant enough amount of people decided not to buy BOTW or HZD because of the other (BOTW broke all records for Zelda and HZD also broke for new IP 1st party for Sony at the time and also sold much higher than any previous GG game).

At that time, there is a possibility that some people could only afford one game at full price. Another chance is some people just started to purchase a new gaming platform in 2017, of course they would compare two game to decide which they would get in the end.