| slab_of_bacon said: The market is shrinking right now so this is fair decision by Mircrosoft. Competition does benefit the sector though, so hopefully Nintendo will continue to innovate. |
The market isn't shrinking. It's not as simple as comparing handheld sales + home console sales from 7th gen with console and handheld sales from 9th gen. Multiple people owned both a DS and Wii because they needed it to play all Nintendo games. They now just own a Switch. Also one system sold doesn't = one customer. Systems are often family devices so a single system can harbour anywhere from 1 to 5 individual customers. So you can't just say DS sales were at 150 million and Wii sales were at 100 million therefore Nintendo lost 95 million customers since gen 7.
The high-end console market is definitely shrinking but that's more of a result of stagnant corporations than lack of player interest. Sony and MS have both ported their games to PC which reduces interest in their consoles. Both have raised prices on their consoles, instead of cut prices. Historically Xbox and Playstation consoles are half their launch price by now.
Edit: Also with Nintendo handhelds like Gameboy Advance two or more kids would own a system. But with Switch and Switch 2 it's common for there just to be a shared household Switch by the TV. Dedicated handheld devices sold differently than home consoles. To just add them all up, without context, is Pachter level bean counting.
