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Otter on 06 March 2020
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Pyro as Bill said:
DonFerrari said:

I'll do like Socrates and return with a question, are Ferrari and GM direct competitors because both sell cars?

They would need to cater to the same market, It is very hard to defend Switch (or Wii or WiiU) directly competed with  PS360 or PS4X1 when the higher up of the 3 companies say there was direct competition between PS and Xbox and that Nintendo were blue ocean strategy (just look at the folks that bought Wii and never returned to gaming, or now that only 30% of Switch owners don't own a different console).

One day people will accept that there are indirect competitors and replacement products and that isn't something bad about the product in that role when compared with the others. Just as PS X1 would be complimentary to people that like Nintendo first but want to play some third parties Switch is complimentary to who likes to play exclusives of PS or Xbox and 3rd parties but also want to play Nintendo games.

"More power? More AAA software? No portability? Steal sales?"

That's a longwinded way of saying yes.

If Ferrari had a Black Friday sale with 99% discount, would GM lose sales?

If PS4 had a Black Friday sale with 99% discount, would Switch lose sales?

I think some of you are missing the point, intentional or not.

Yes, they are in the same market. Yes, they will influence each others performance.

If I buy new shiny IPad for Christmas , I probably won't buy a PS4 the same Christms.... but owning the iPad does not take away my desire or intention to own the PS4. 

Let's move away from arbitrary point scoring, the discussion beinghad is that switch owners are happy to have the platform co-exist as oppose to one replacing the other. Most people will either buy a PS4 or an Xbox, very few will buy both. This is direct competition.

If people are happy to have both then there is far less direct competition and the products can coexist. All evidence and logic implies this is the case for Switch ownership.

Semantics aside, this is all that is being said.