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aTokenYeti on 30 January 2022
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
aTokenYeti said:

The software libraries are so radically different that I just don’t think the switch is taking away customers from PlayStation (or Xbox or PC, for that matter) anywhere outside of Japan. If you are at all interested in yearly AAA releases the switch is a completely non viable option for you. If you are interested in online multiplayer the switch is also similar severely disadvantaged. 

People in the west in particular are almost entirely buying switches in addition to another games console, not in place of another game console 

I know man.  Nintendo games are so radically different.  Remember back when Nintendo and Playstation were actually competing?  Like back in Gen 5 when PS1 was clearly competing against N64?  What did Nintendo make back then?  Oh yeah, 3D Mario, 3D Zelda, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Animal Forest, Mario Party, etc....  Come to think of it, those are some of the best selling games on the Switch right now.  I guess those games are still not different enough.  If they were competing with Playstation back in Gen 5, then they are still competing with Playstation now.  They are still making the same types of games.

There is more to a games library than first party. You cannot play any of the latest call of duty titles on switch, nor can you play any of the latest EA sports games, nor can you play a number of the more popular free to play battle royales. 

in fact I am struggling to think of any of the major AAA titles released in the last 3 years from the likes of ABK, EA, Take Two, Ubisoft, or Zenimax that released on the Switch. The only two significant exceptions I’m aware of are Apex legends and Immortals fenix rising.