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| JWeinCom said: The way I mean gimmick is just something novel to gain attention. I think the Switch definitely is gimmicky in that sense, down to the way they use that snapping sound in all the promos. It's a good gimmick though. But even if it's a good gimmick, or selling point if you prefer, it's not going to be as exciting the second time around. I don't think upgrading the chip set every 7 years is going to work, especially with graphical upgrades getting smaller each gen. As for Sony, the PS5 is selling at a similar rate to the PS5, and pretty much all of its games were available for PS4 until recently. Even now, there's still really only a handful of titles that are not on PS4 as well, so the library doesn't seem likely to be the reason people are upgrading. I also don't think they just love the Dual Sense... so I guess it's the graphics? |
I see gimmick as something that is cool and novel to draw immediate attention in a cheap way but ultimately fail to produce lasting impact. I don't think Switch being a hybrid is a gimmick. But those are just semantics I guess...
Sure PS5 games are now just PS4 games however PS4 stopped selling for a while, the system is backwards compatible meaning ou can care all your games, they are offering free games to all early adopters.
And the most important: The upcoming games guaranteed to come in few years. Unless something really odd happens (like MS buying major publishers) Playstation is bound to keep getting everything from EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and many japanese games from Capcom and Square. Third party support being so strong for Playstation, added with strong first party line up is what keep Playstation sales so consistent. If it was the graphics people would just buy PCs
If Switch 2 have Mario, Pokemon, Smash, Animal Crossing, Zelda, Splatoon, etc it will sell well. I mean, Pokémon NEVER sold less than 15 million copies with a mainline entry. It's a powerful system seller.
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