| IcaroRibeiro said: This of course doesn't mean Nintendo and Sony are not in competition, they absolutely are. But two things can be competition in different degrees. You will see a significant bigger correlation between PC adoption in Japan increasing while Sony brand gets weaker |
Yeah. I have to think of Arcades with this discussion. In a way you could've argued (and maybe they did, I wasn't there) that the far more powerful Arcade cabinets with better input devices clearly were in a different market than the comparatively weaker game consoles. And maybe that would look good. But that market was shrinking, while home consoles flourished. And I don't think these events were unconnected.
Nowadays mobile phones and PC are viable platforms besides gaming handhelds and consoles. And they may seem as different markets, after all which mobile gamer would get a console and vice versa? But the reality is that if you start to exclude the Switch, the console market (or some put it as high performance console market) is not growing for some time now. This is a bad sign. Gaming overall grows greatly and Nintendo adapted with the Switch and sees success. If Sony and MS (and for MS I can see some effort) don't adapt as well their market might dwindle away, same as arcades did. Then Sony wins a dying market. And I am pretty sure that market dwindles because the alternative offerings exist.
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