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Sephiran on 19 February 2025
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Soundwave said:

No, if anything it's Sony's audience that is really starting to age. A lot of the Playstation audience is 40+ year olds, so are a lot of the people who buy high end GPUs.

Younger gamers are playing a lot on smartphones + Switch + low-end PCs and free to play titles. This is where the industry is headed and where it already is in a lot of ways. As a result in that range, Switch certainly can be the defacto platform for a lot of people. 

The old paradigms are changing, some people are just blind to it. 

This will potentially compound on Switch 2 as it gets better and better 3rd party support (hello there Call of Duty and Madden NFL and Final Fantasy and Halo and Forza series'). 

Playstation audience is gonna become really old IMO in the next gen, bunch of 40 and 50 year olds, they're gonna be the new "my dad listens to classic rock on radio" people, lol. Makes sense too, Sony hasn't grown their main demos much at all, if you were 20 years old in 2000 when the PS2 (the target PS2 demo) launched, you'd be 44 or 45 years old today. Checks out. 

For example, PS fans in Japan were polled by Famitsu in Japan, almost all of the top PS games they ranked were stuff like Xenogears, FF7 and other PS1 games, showing hold old the PS audience is in some countries already.