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killer7 said:

@IcaroRibeiro
If one company does not want to offer something that the competition has its not their problem. I mean in Japan PS5 and Switch compete but in the west they don't?! I mean look at movies: It's like saying that in in japan all animated movies compete with Horror, Action and anime, but in europe anime movies are no competition? Only because their biggest audience sits in Japan, where it suddenly is? Or Action movies do not compete with horror movies because of "different audiences"? I don't think so. At the Game Awards there are many cathegories. Many games from many consoles compete with each other. In 2021 Metroid Dread became GOTY if i am not mistaken. There where also games nominated, wich where on Playstation and Xbox. So here these games and systems get compared but here on vgchartz its "forbidden"?

 If two devices have different features and those key features are what people look for then they are competing for the same market (read the same pool of customers)

Otherwise they are not. If someone is looking specifically for a handheld then there is no competition between PS5 and Switch, the competition would be between something like Switch and Steam Deck

Likewise, if what someone is looking for a machine to play third parties then PS5 and Switch are competing, as long those third parties are shared between both consoles, which is not the case for most of western AAA

Wii U and PS4 were more directly competition than PS5 and Switch, Switch is competing with PS5 yes, but they don't share exactly the same pool of customers. It's different from MS and Sony, those 2 are fighting for almost exclusively the same audience