Wman1996 said:
Hmm. Atari went from winning Gen 2 to losing badly every platform after. NES won Gen 3, SNES won Gen 4. PS1 won Gen 5, PS2 won Gen 6. Wii won Gen 7. But here comes the messy part. Switch is a hybrid and there's no clear consensus what gen it is. If it's Gen 8, it beat the PS4. But if it's Gen 9, it also is pretty much guaranteed to beat PS5. PS5 doesn't have much of a shot of selling over 130 million and forget 150 million or more. In the handheld space each gen, Nintendo wins each time. In home consoles, it's either Nintendo or Sony once they came on the scene. Could Switch 2 sell less than PS5 or the future PS6? Quite possible. But there's almost no way it would be dead last. There's almost no chance Xbox ever reaches 360 levels again unless Nintendo or PlayStation are selling well too. |
Atari 2600's successor failed, NES's succeeded. SNES's failed, PS1's succeeded. PS2's failed, Wii's failed, PS4's failed. I know people like to argue that Switch is not ninth gen, but it's simple math (it can not be the same gen as Wii U). So its competition is PS5 and Series X/S, and it's sure to beat both.
Regardless, it's not common for one dominant home console to be followed up with another.
