Nintendo only has to get lucky once.......

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Norion said:

curl-6 said:

Nah, I've been hearing this same line since like 2009 where people claimed that the 7th gen was the last console generation and that in a few years consoles would be extinct and irrelevant; low and behold it's 2025 and consoles are thriving.

Consoles are overall doing well currently but the picture is a bit more mixed than that I'd say. Xbox hardware is fading into irrelevance and while the PS5 is doing really well it's falling behind the PS4 despite that happening to its biggest competitor historically. If it wasn't for Nintendo making a massive comeback with the Switch the console market would be looking kinda rough compared to gen 7 and I expect Sony will have at least a bit of trouble getting people to upgrade to the PS6 so for the console market there really is a lot riding on the Switch 2 having strong legs.

There's still a solid chance PS5 outsells PS4 due to the gen potentially lasting longer, and even if it doesn't it's a lock for 100 million plus which is better than PS3 or any Xbox console.

For now, it's really only Xbox who aren't thriving, and that's due to their own appalling mismanagement.