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

[IkePoR]

only777 said:

IkePoR said:

A person with a family isn't choosing between the Switch vs. the PS5.

As a father with kids and a wife, I disagree with this.

Although times are better now, I went through a period where I couldn't justify the money of having more than one console in the house, and I'm sure many others are still in this place.

So do you buy a Switch so everyone can play Mario Kart, or try to get the family into PS5 multiplayer games?

The bolded statement highlights the entailment, you'd need to make a concerned effort to justify the PS5.  When we go to games many of the PS5's multiplayer games are on PS4.  Should the wife and kids(plural) want to play, $70($50 if third party) for a second, $140($100) for a third controller.  

While the Switch is not cheap either it ships with two controllers and is pretty quintessentially the family console.  I'm not accusing you of this but if I were to ask my wife to make this concession she'd glare with the most "selfish bastard" eyes she could muster, haha.