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

[BraLoD]

konnichiwa said:

BraLoD said:

Sony and Nintendo don't compete since the PS2 days.
Nintendo lost so bad in their game once Sony got in that they got sidelined by the developers that once made them so successful, thus aiming at gimmicks and heavily focusing on their own first party games.

The one that was still trying to compete with Sony was Microsoft, but they also keep losing so badly that they are completely changing as well.
If it wasn't obvious enough, just look at the system sales.

Sega tried to compete with Nintendo, they got moderate success on it, making the SNES sales drop considerably from the NES sales, but still leading the market, while the Mega Drive sales went up a lot from the Master System.

Sony tried to compete with Nintendo, they got massive success on it, the PS1 and PS2 made the Nintendo 64 and the Gamecube sales keep dropping even further, while Playstation were smashing sales records, so Nintendo just stopped trying to compete since the Wii. Which helped them a lot.

Microsoft tried to compete with Sony, they achieved big success during the 360 era, thus halving the sales Sony had from the PS2 to the PS3 era (this was also when Sony started getting a stronger first party success), but then they kept losing and the Xbox sales declined proportionally to how the Playstation sales went back up.

Now look at the Wii U and Switch sales for example, the sales exploded between those and yet it didn't affect Playstation sales in the slightest, PS4 and PS5 have basically the same performance sales wise. Why? Because the Switch did not compete with either. Most people were not making a decision whether to buy a Switch or a PS4/PS5, the sales clearly show that, but the reason was always crystal clear: the games, the games selling on both platforms were not the same. Unlike between Sony and Microsoft.

If the Switch 2 starts getting all the new big game releases that come for the PS5, then they could start having a competition again, and a possible Switch 2 success could tank the PS5 sales. But since 2006, there is simply no competition between both for customer sales, only for ego and between the fanbases.

Exactly my point I made before, till 2005 it was all 'Their is a grand canyon gap between the sales of PS2 and others' 'Psp will do the same with DS'

2006 came, PSP did not do that well like hoped and PS3 had a hard time...Nintendo was the one winning and since then the mood changed 'the competion that Nintendo fans think their is just silly'

In regions like Japan it is very clear that PS4/PS5 sales would have been better if their was no switch, early on PS4/Switch had both an healthy amount of titles in the top 30 but now it is basically only Switch titles and third party PS5 titels that do better on swith.

Playstation sales in Japan have been in decline for a long time, despite the PS4 worldwide success and it selling 30M more units than the PS3, the PS4 still sold less than the PS3 there. Despite the Switch completely dominating the physical games charts, the PS5 was not far behind the PS4 there, and the PS5 is now decling heavily because Sony is giving Japan the middle finger, raising prices and not having many exclusives that appeal for that market.