People also need to stop this narrative Switch owners are somewhat different than any other kind or gamers
For instance, in UK a market with no clear allegiance to any console brand where all 3 big consoles have a healthy performance 60% of Switch userbase have a PS4 and 51% have a Xbox. This data is tricky because they are including people who have all 3 consoles together in both groups
A little basic of maths can help us to solve this puzzle. Let's call Switch and PS4 owners SP, Switch and Xbox SX, Switch only S and all 3 SPX
SP + SX + S - SPX = 100% of Switch owners
Hence:
S - SPX = 100 - 60 - 51
S - SPX = -11
Granted there is MORE Switch owners who have all 3 systems than Switch owners who only have a Switch
Well mathematically speaking the limit threshold for SPX (owners who owns all 3 consoles) is 51%, same number of owners of SX group. In this scenario:
- Switch owners who have a PS4 but not a Xbox are 9%
- Switch owners who have a Xbox but no PS4 are 0%
- And the number of people who only have a Switch is 40%
A the floor limit is 11% (i.e. no Switch-only owners). In this case:
- 49% of Switch owners have a PS4 but no Xbox
- 40% of Switch owners have a Xbox but no PS4
- No Switch one have only a Switch
The most realistic number is somewhere in-between: 31% Switch owners having all 3 consoles. In this case
- 20% of Switch owners have only a Switch
- 38% of Switch owners have a PS4 but no Xbox
- 30% of Switch owners have a Xbox but no PS4
Point is no matter how much you torture and stretch data you will always fall in a scenario where over 60% of Switch owners have at least one more console
Remember CONSOLE
This is even excluding PC gamers who can have neither XBONE nor PS4 and still having a Switch
TDLR, I don't see any reason to think Switch userbase is in anyway different from other consoles, at least in markets where all 3 consoles can stand in the same ground
If we go to Japan Nintendo will utterly destroy both only due to the fact they have the IPs that appeals Japanese market the best. This is so clear that even when Nintendo bombed (Wii U) we have seen no substantial upward trajectory in console sales for neither Sony or Microsoft in Japan
In other hand when we go to emergent markets like Latin America, Middle West and East Europe Nintendo awful distribution, lack of IP awareness and high price policy hold them back. People will buy Sony or Microsft because they are actually bother lowering their profits to make a secure foot in those markets
