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killer7 on 01 February 2025
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javi741 said:
killer7 said:

Yes, sure Covid helped but remember: The Switch was sucessfull even before Covid. The thesis that the so called "Lockdowns" helped the Switch is a myth. At least in Austria there where basically no lockdowns. You could go out whenever you like, if you ever got checked by te police you name a reason to be out: Helping friends, get food, walk for fresh air... there where so many reasons you could basically name anything justifying you're out, streets where full of people but shops where closed. That was the only difference. We where even meeting for lan partis. Sometimes we played Doom on the Switch together in the park. Later the high court skipped it because they said it was against human rights and that the "virus" does not have this leven of danger to justify such a move. Also we went on demonstrations and parties like the blue one made preasure to open. This year they won the elections wich close to 30%.

So no! Lockdowns where not the reason Switch did so well, otherwise Xbox one and especially PS4 should have been on the rise (PS5 and Series where not out when it started) but they where on the downfall. PS4 was even discontinued when the pandemic ended in march 2022! Xbox one stopped being produced even as early as the end of 2020.

PS & Xbox also benefitted from the pandemic. The reason why sales didn't look as high for PS4 & Xbox One at the time were due to shortages, not demand. Shortages during that time plagued almost every portion of tech production in some way. While Sony & Microsoft could've definitely produced more PS4s & Xbox Ones if they wanted to, they decided to invest all of their production efforts straight towards their next gen consoles that were just releasing which is why the PS4's & Xbox One's lifespans ended fairly abruptly, but demand was definitely higher for those consoles as well it just doesn't show due to shortages at the time

PS4 was considerably down in 2019 from 2018 and that was before Covid. The pandemic only strenghtend that trend. If the Switch benefitted from Covid, why not PS4? I mean the PS4 sold what? Around 5 million in 2020?! No one can tell me that Sony was not able to produce more, Covid or not. Why was Nintendo able to produce 28 million Switch systems at the same time despite it needing more components like the LCD screen? And Nintendo is a way smaller company ghan Sony. Sony wanted to move on quite fast that also shows PS4s discontinuation in march 2022... Xbox one was axed as early as the end of 2020 shortly after the XSX and the XSS launched.