Chrkeller said:
HebrewGamer said:
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. |
I did, and the controller was the price of a DVD. The argument the ps2 sold 160 because of dvd makes no sense, because the xbox played dvd too. It appears illogical to me that dvd sold 160 million but a $20 add on to play dvd sold 20 million. At the end of the day the answer is either ps2 or S1, both have arguments in their favor. And like usual, Sony is beinf undersold here on VG (and I say that as a PC gamer). |
The controller was another thing you had to buy vs. something that worked out of the box. To a casual consumer, those types of barriers to entry are a deal breaker.
