Playstation being American-ised is bad for the market, I think

[Kakadu18]

IcaroRibeiro said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

"Playstation is still more affordable than Switch unless you only buy games on release"

For the most part, no, this is wrong.  First there is the very obvious $500 for PS5 vs. $300/$350 for Switch.  Secondly, third party games on Switch do tend to come down in price.  It is mostly the first party games that stay high in price and even there Nintendo runs discounts regularly for people who want that.

Nintendo only make discounts for a very specific number of titles that aren't moving many copies anymore and for a very limited time, generally on holidays and the discounts are never under 40 USD. Meanwhile if you get a Playstation you can buy almost anything in the library for less than 30 USD, or not buy at all, just subscribe for Ps Plus. Switch has less expensive hardware but software expenses clearly offset this down the line unless you're the kind of gamer that but maybe one game a year and always close to launching. 

I'm not saying this in a negative way at all, if something it only highlights how successful the Switch is. Just to state your idea that Switch is an inexpensive console makes very little sense.

I can see Switch being a less expensive option though if you have multiple devices to share the same physical games, in this point I can see an advantage for Switch as you can have one without the expenses of getting a new TV to play, but this in no way resembles how PS1/PS2 used to be consumed. If anything is something more related to handhelds than with any stationary consoles

I'll proceed by stating the obvious: as far as gaming library goes, the successor of PS1/PS2 is the PS5. The switch is the successor of Wii and DS. 

Bold: That's not true. Some of the most often discounted games in Europe are Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Party and NSMBUDX. The only games that absolutely never ever go on sale are mainline Pokémon games and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

A few times per year around half a dozen to a dozen first party games are discounted and it's always a mixture of big and small sellers. Luigi's Mansion 3, Super Mario Odyssey and Splatoon 2 have also gone on sale quite often. I've also gotten Smash Ultimate on sale. I think only BotW has gone on sale only once when they showed the sequel at E3 2021.