Sony no longer reporting PS4 shipments, Final Official total 117.00m

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padib said:

curl-6 said:

Again though, that drop happened long before the Switch, in one country. On a global scale, PS4's sales didn't plummet in parallel with the arrival and rise of the Switch, nor did PS4's dominance at the time of Switch's release stop it selling strongly out of the gate.

The two sold well side by side; to go back to my original point, there's nothing to suggest PS5 and Switch can't do the same, and in fact they are doing just that right now.

Them selling well side by side doesn't mean they don't eat out each others' marketshare or compete for customer $$. That's what I'm clarifying to you. So long as you make these two concepts mutually exclusive, you can't understand the obvious.

Strictly speaking, I think you're right. Those systems - of rather their games - compete each other, to an extent, just like mobile phones compete the two. However, because the games on both systems are different games, people are not not buying PS5 to play Switch games, nor are they buying Switch to play PS5 games, whereas PS5 and Xbox S/X are bought to play largely the same games. This is why it made sense to sell a home console and a handheld side by side, and where PSP failed and NDS didn't. PSP had basically the same games that PS2/3 had, and NDS had different games than GC/Wii.