Cerebralbore101 said:
Most people that owned a handheld also had a dedicated gaming console in their house. Do you honestly think that a majority of DS or PSP owners didn't also own or have access to a home console?
"And how do you know that many customers didn't also own multiple consoles last gen and this gen?"
That's my point. You can't simply count up lifetime total sales and state that one number is bigger therefore better. You have to take into account the fact that owning both a 360 and a PS3 offered a bigger variety of games than owning just one, while also taking into account the fact that the majority of Xbox games are on PS5 or coming to PS5. And not only that but you have to take into account the fact that Xbox 1st party output took a huge nosedive going into 8th gen from 7th gen. And not only that but most Wiis were thrown in a closet a few years after use.Â
Anyway the point of all this is that you can't simply count each console as an individual customer and then claim the market is shrinking when total lifetime sales of all consoles combined go down. It's not that simple.Â
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The market did shrink in total software sales during the 8th generation too (~3 billion vs. ~4.2 billion).
Although counting the Switch's early years in that generation would mitigate that to some extent, and also the impact of the rise of 'forever' games and more money spent on add-ons.
