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curl-6 on 25 August 2022
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yo33331 said:
curl-6 said:

We can see from the numbers we have in 2017, 2018, etc that Switch's rise did not gouge into PS4's sales. The two coexisted rather than directly competing. There's no reason PS5 should be any different. They are totally different products, like family cars and motorbikes or Call of Duty and Mario.

You can't be certain that without Switch in the market PS4 wouldn't reach for example 20M again in 2018 or maybe 16-18M in 2019 instead of 14. So no one can't say for sure if Switch hasn't had impact on PS4 sales. Because we don't know the other scenario if there wasn't switch sales could've been bigger. There's no need for the PS4 to drop significantly in the Switch's first years, so that sales of the switch impact to the PS4 sales or even xbox (at lesser extend of course).

As it is now. PS5 and XBSX may also impact switch, however because they are in not full stock yet the impact is smaller. For example Switch may've reached 26 or 27M last year, or 22-25M this year without PS5 or XBSX on the market.

PS4's sales curve is not indicative of being cannibalized, it would've dropped much faster from 2017 on if Switch was really a direct competitor.