JRPGfan said:
curl-6 said:
Most people value consoles in terms of games, not teraflops; the Switch was the same price as PS4, only like 1/4 as powerful, but Switch sold way more. Hell, the Series X is a beast in terms of flops but clearly the market sees it as undesirable. |
The 1st Switch was ~397 Gflops (I think it was?) compaired to the 1,84 Tflops of the PS4.
That was more like 1/5th of a PS4.
The Switch 2 is actually closer to the PS5, than the Switch was to the PS4.
(and with up-scaling. its def. in a better spot to get good looking 3rd party games than the Switch was)
Didn't the PS4 start at 399$? while the Switch started at 299$ ?
So it was 100$ cheaper. Maybe I am not remembering it right...
I think part of the reason, is while a home typically only has 1 console... a family would own multiple Switch's for each kid.
The price was low enough you could justify getting each kid their own. That and many people, also got the Oled.
So the user base, is probably smaller than the sold units would suggest.
(that's basically like people saying part of why the PS2 sold well, was people wanted to be able to watch dvd's.)
This is also why I think Nintendo is more price sensitive than the other two.
Series X is 12 Tflops instead of 10.2.... and your right, that 20% doesn't seem valued much by the market as a whole.
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By the time Switch came out, the PS4's price had been cut to $300, same as Switch. In 2017, the year Switch came out, it also had several temporary $250 bundles.
And plenty of PS4 sales would also have been double dips with people replacing their base systems with a Pro/Slim.
As far as Xbox goes, the Series has sold around 1/5 as much as the Switch 1 despite being something like 30 times more powerful, so clearly the general public doesn't value systems purely in terms of power.
