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HebrewGamer on 18 May 2026
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Kyuu said:
HebrewGamer said:

Due to MTX, Sony generates much more revenue and profit than Nintendo. When you have a few games which can generate billions in revenue per year off a few million whales, you're gonna make a lot more money than relying on 10s of millions of one time purchases.

It's not just MTX. Correct me if I'm wrong (I can't find the latest revenue breakdown for Sony gaming and Nintendo), but Sony's digital sales (minus MTX and services) are around as big as Nintendo's physical + digital + services + MTX. The two aren't comparable. Playstation's spending is on a completely different level.

curl-6 said:

The competition Switch faced in the portable space was the fact that pretty much everyone has a phone/tablet with an endless array of very cheap/free to play software available.

Convincing people to buy a portable console is a much harder task in the post-smartphone era, as we saw when the market collapsed from over 230 DS/PSPs in the 7th gen to less than 90 million 3DS/Vitas in the 8th.

Mobile phones aren't yet replacing consoles. In general, they appeal to a very different crowd and play different games. Nintendo has dominated dedicated handhelds since the GameBoy. It's a huge selling point and I don't understand why some people pretend that it isn't.

Doubling as a handheld is a big and real Switch advantage regardless of mobile phones domination. It adds more than it subtracts.

You would need to clarify what you mean by "digital sales" If you're not including in-game purchases of any kind. I would also need to see that data.

We can't make the determination if mobile gaming has or has not replaced consoles due to how well the Switch did(due almost exclusively to the success of Animal Crossing New Horizons). Microsoft is out of the running and Sony got a huge boost this past holiday due to a major price cut to $400. Point being, when people talk about how the pandemic brought in more gamers, Mobile gaming is where they went. COD mobile and Genshin Impact were smash hits in 2020.

Being a handheld is indeed a selling point, but they're offering you a significantly weaker system where many major 3rd party titles are either missing or run like $%@# on the system. You can't beat Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon though. The last 3rd party game to carry a Nintendo platform was Tetris for the Gameboy. The Switch has 21 games that sold 10 million or more(soon to be 22 with SMPJ at 9.96). ALL of them are Nintendo's games. The only thing the Switch does is play games and without compelling game titles, there's no reason for people to buy a substantially weaker and less capable system where most major 3rd party titles aren't on the platform, even if you can play on the go.

BTW, someone mentioned how the original Xbox had a DVD player. It did. The problem is you needed an add-on accessory to use it which was sold separately.