RolStoppable said:
Imagine you are a game developer. If you make a game for Switch, who is going to buy your game. Will it be home console gamers or handheld console gamers. Then you realize that it will be both. That's why counting Switch towards both the home console and handheld console market is not only fair game, but the only logical way to do it. It isn't any different from the gamer's perspective either. When a console is so flexible, then looking at it as an either-or situation is nonsensical. |
The only logical way is to either count it as a separate entity or comparing both markets together to include Switch sales because Switch belongs to both categories
Otherwise you are double counting a single purchase as the hybrid aspect of Switch isn't generating more revenue because of the double counting
8th gen
PVita - 5.92
3DS - 24.64
Wii U - 3.33
PS4 - 9.28
XBONE - 0.12M
9th gen
Switch - 17.06M
PS5 - 0.24M
XSX - 0.03M
9th gen needs at least more 25 million hardware sold to catch up 8th gen which factually won't happen unless some miracle happens and PS5 manage to archieve PS1 levels of popularity
This conversation will be more interesting if we include software sales. If the software sales growth due to Switch hybrid nature is strong enough to offset the MASSIVE decline in hardware sales, then we can say JP market is flat or even growing, otherwise the market for dedicated hardware is just declining no matter if in home console segment or in the handheld segment as this distinction itself is now almost irrelevant
Last edited by IcaroRibeiro - on 02 January 2021
