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Hardstuck-Platinum on 10 January 2025
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The_Yoda said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

It's not a straw man. There is no reason to just arbitrarily cut out the smartphone market because you set an unnecessary boundary that only includes "dedicated home consoles". That boundary didn't need to be there because smart phones is also a valid way to play games too. Also, by your own logic again, when Switch 2 launches the Switch will no longer be market leader because it will just become an irrelevant "legacy platform" according to your rules. We can't just ignore the contribution an older console is making to the business because we deem it's just a legacy platform.

Well you said that if you only go by revenue and not unit sales, than Steam deck is the most influential. Well, even if you go by revenue alone the steam deck and Valve is still fourth in the competitive list. So, still not the most influential. Steam deck is 4'th in unit sales and Valve is 4th in revenue. So, they match perfectly. 

  

I am sorry guys I helped derail the thread.  We are wading into semantics territory where we would need to define things to the Nth degree (forget about smart phones, you can play Doom on a McDonald's soft serve machine and nearly anything else with a display - so what is a game console?).  I should have just let the "Market Leader"  comment go. It will only be pointless arguing.  Again, my bad.

Yes, because the person who was talking about market leaders was the crazy one, not the OP who suggested Nintendo was right to not build a platform strong enough to run third party games.