Global Hardware May 17 to 23

[The_Liquid_Laser]

curl-6 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Looking at the past for patterns is the basis of all of science and really education in general.  I mean, why even look at sales data?  Everyone on this site who studies sales data is looking for patterns.

You are now trying to argue some weird solipstic world view where we can't know anything based on studying patterns, and science is an illusion.  No one really believes this, even when they make this kind of argument.  It's the type of argument a person makes when they stay to themselves, "I know in my gut you are wrong, but I just have no idea why."

Perhaps you need to examine your own thinking?  Because you insist that a system (the Switch) either competes with both the PS4 and PS5 or competes with neither.  Can you give an example like this?  Do you think the XBox360 competed with both the PS2 and PS3 at the same time?  Can you give any example of one system that competed with two generations at the same time?  I can't.  That is why a system, the Switch, which doesn't compete with the PS4 can still compete with the PS5.

That's the thing, the Switch does not have a historical precedent, because as a system it is unique. The behaviour of totally different systems in the past are not applicable to it.

The closest thing would be DS to PS2/PS3/360 or Gameboy to Megadrive/PS1/Saturn. It's still not quite apples to apples, but its the same basic matter of a system being so fundamentally different that it doesn't directly compete with either generation of other companies.

It is unique in that it is a hybrid.  It appeals to both the home and handheld markets.  Nintendo doesn't have any competition in the handheld market, but it will have competition in the home console markets.  Therefore the PS5 and Series X will compete with the Switch.