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src said:
Agente42 said:

Sony has all third party support and the results was a market decrease,  the ps4 contenders: one disastrous stationary console ( WiiU), an old but good console ( 3DS), and another niche console ( PSvita) in Japan.  This not good. PS3 fights against the better portable all time( DS), another great portable (PSP), and a great action carnival arcade machine( Wii). Don't have the same support. And maybe, in the end, sell the same. 

Whats ps5  potential market space, easier or more difficult? 

PS5 is a considerably easier market. You guys continue to miss the driving factor for software development: software/ecosystem sales.

3DS/PSV was stronger competition to PS3/4 than SW will ever be, simply because they allowed devs to go exclusive to those platforms. SW can't do that because PS4 makes too much money for JP third party devs.

case in point, CAPCOM. PS4 has almost 8 times the sales of SW.

That's FY 2018, which ended March 2018. It would have been shocking if PS4 wouldn't have beaten the Switch by a large margin at the time, especially with the MHW launch in January. Also, again, that's worldwide sales, not just Japan, which is what this thread is all about.

Try a newer one for size. The one for FY 2020 doesn't seem ready yet (last update October 15), but the one for FY 2019 is. PS4 still leading, but sales dropped quite a bit while Switch sales almost doubled over the previous year:

Also, keep in mind those are just the physical sales, as digital sales are being counted separately and without distinction to which platform sold how much.