Does PS5 have a good chance to win the launch season?

[Mnementh]

Intrinsic said:

Mnementh said:

Bla blu ble blo. Always the same shit. I get too old for that: "No, no, that shitty kiddy Nintendo console is not in the same league as the great adult console I choose!!!!111!!!"

It is obvious Sony and Nintendo are vying for the dollars of similar customers. They are rivals. Now, we could argue that they target different parts of the market, and true enough. But that was and is always the case. It is at this point obvious, that MS has a more and more differing strategy, focusing on Gamepass and their coming streaming-service. Does that mean they aren't rivals either? Probably the best, if it is the case, then congratulations, PS5 will obviously the unchallenged winner, as they actually are completely alone in the market.

A much more intelligent and interesting approach would be, that the launch sales of the PS5 and XBSX have to be compared to the Switch launch sales, not the current ones. That I would agree with, and it is interesting to see who will have the upper hand in that contest. PS5 will be strong, because as I said before, many strong PS-fans buy the console on brand power alone. Also Switch released in March, not in the holidays.

I was not calling the switch kiddie or shitty....

And what I am saying is simple, they are only rivals as far as them being in the same industry. But they are not rivals with regard to competing directly. I would think this was obvious. 

Maybe I am the one not getting it, but to me, Rivals would be more like looking at the PS vs Xbox. One doing well usually comes at the expense of the other. That's because they are direct rivals. Competing not just in the same industry but for the exact same kinda audience, and in the exact same form factor. 

I don't know why saying this (something that I think is clearly obvious by the way) always seems to ruffle feathers.

There are always disclaimers. I am fully aware of it. I for one are the fastest person worldwide(*) running the 100m distance.

(*) Well, obviously Usain Bolt doesn't count, as he is a professional, and I am an amateur. We do not compete directly. I would think this was obvious. Rivals for me are like the ones, which win does come at the expense of my wins. So people from germany. Obviously born in the 70s. With the username Mnementh on VGChartz. As you can see it is obvious, that I am the fastest. People like Usain Bolt are maybe competing on the same distance, but not for the exact same kinda audience, the same format.

I don't know why saying this (something that I think is clearly obvious by the way) always seems to ruffle feathers.

EDIT: By the way, if the mod team is wondering why it is so hard to build a Xbox-community here: the same shit happens to Xbox. Here we have an example of a thread that poses a question and just "happens" to forget that Nintendo has a console too, and find then new reasons of the day, why the Switch isn't counting. In the same way we see XBox-games disregarded. "This is released on PC, so it doesn't count. This is a timed exclusive, so it doesn't count. This one doesn't count, because I say so. And Minecraft doesn't count, because it is only played by bloody casuals. So as you can clearly see, Xbox *obviously* has no games."

Last edited by Mnementh - on 17 August 2020