Best achievement system. Should Nintendo implement one?

[Jumpin]

Conina said:

Jumpin said:

Nintendo Switch currently has a 58.4% marketshare. That's not just a market lead, but a majority marketshare. That's why we call Nintendo the market leader of the dedicated console space

Source: https://www.vgchartz.com/

So the active player base on PS4 + XBO doesn't count, only the player base on the newest console?

With this logic, Nintendo will soon lose that majority marketshare (and will be last place for a while) when Switch 2 launches (and the active player base on Switch 1 doesn't count anymore).

Monthly active users, yearly active users and/or yearly software revenue seems to be a much better suited comparison than just focussing on hardware numbers, especially if the console launches of Sony and Nintendo are so far apart from each other nowadays.

That's not the logic. You're literally clipping my argument out of context.

The point of contention was whether the Switch or PS5 was the market leader, not Switch or PS5 + earlier generation consoles. So, of course PS4 and Xbox One don't count toward PS5's market share. Just like the Switch 2 is a different platform from Switch 1. Trying to include older generations and competing products as part of the PS5 lineup is not only the wrong argument, but a self-defeating argument, because Nintendo's total hardware sales = 863.07 million, which is still above total sales of Xbox and Playstation hardware combined.

And while DAU/MAU impacted by console marketshare, it's not the same thing as console marketshare which (like other electronics, and hardware in general) is measured by total sales, not DAU or MAU. So, for example, when people are looking at the marketshare of SNES vs Mega Drive/Genesis, they're not looking at which console has the highest DAU, but which one sold the most. Incidentally, console marketshare is why VGChartz exists.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 29 March 2025