Sony and Nintendo are in competition. But are they really?

[konnichiwa]

mutantsushi said:

konnichiwa said:

Sony always saw Nintendo as competition, conferences always had slides were they were outselling Nintendo consoles with a big margin but they stopped doing it during the PS3 era when it was clear Nintendo Wii was outperforming the PS3 in sales.  Example

The relative failure of the Game Cube was the trigger for Nintendo to adopt Blue Ocean Strategy.
By which Nintendo itself explicitly sought to avoid competition.
Sony agreeing to Nintendo´s own representation is hardly some outlier.
Using words like ¨always¨ which ignores Nintendo´s own shift in strategy only obscures the reality here.
Nintendo´s non-competitive strategy was reported to stockholders and as such would be grounds for lawsuit if not true.

But thats just a strategy, similar like sega tried to be succesfull with aiming to the Teens market with the genesis/Megadrive.
At best you could say that during the Wii era they weren't competing that much but when I look to the top ten Japan software sales and see a game that has a PS5 version that sells less as the Switch version then I think....yeah that is competition;...With Switch 2 it will be more common..