firebush03 said:
CosmicSex said:
Most commercially successful hardware of all time? Possibily but you need to quailify that with something that is quantitative and trackable. Such as profits. And its gonna be kinda hard to define that without knowing the production cost of the Switch at different time or the overal profit generated by the hardware. Also, you can include thing like the profit generated by sales of games (including platforming income) on that platform and services as well
The last time I checked PS4 is the number one console as far as game sales of all time. Sony probably generated an order of magnitude more subscribtion income on the PS4 than Nintendo with the Switch. By the same token Nintendo never dropped the price of the Switch and it actually is higher than ever, so I would assume that the Switch generated more profit on te hardware itself (and yes I know that ram cost and tariffs really make this hard to nail down.) on top of over 150 million in sales.
Alas, I feel like answering this question requires more information than we have access to. We can speculate, but thats about it.
PS, we are only dealing in profit here. If we are talking about straight rev on hardware sales, then the PS5 is clearly the most successful. |
I didn’t ask which system generated the most revenue nor which was the most profitable, but commercially successful. So software-to-hardware ratio, for instance. (Also PS4’s software figures are inflated by digital only software. Nintendo excludes those in their fiscal reportings.) |
Well clearly the answer is PS4. If Nintendo doesn't share then its unknowable which would make this topic pointless. PlayStation numbers are not inflated... they just are what they are. But if we base it on actual knowable stats then we could have a conversation. Otherwise it feels like you have a topic no one can verify or dispute. It come across as a litmus test to see if everyone else loves Nintendo as much as OP.
