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Forums - Gaming - Switch: How Big Will Its 9th Gen Lead Be?

bunchanumbers on 01 February 2017
iNathan said:
Generation means a power leap, Switch is inferior to Xbox One to it should count as 7.5 Gen, Ps4 Pro and Scorpio are 9th gen not Switch lmao

Switch is a up console but with a great concept and very powerfull for handheld, that alone will make it sell alot.

I pretty much agree with this. If it is a console then it should be considered to be the 'New' Wii U. It actually goes in line with it in terms of hardware capabilities and game lineup. It sounds crazy but devs are porting their gen 7 games onto it.



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monocle_layton on 01 February 2017
iNathan said:
Generation means a power leap, Switch is inferior to Xbox One to it should count as 7.5 Gen, Ps4 Pro and Scorpio are 9th gen not Switch lmao

Switch is a up console but with a great concept and very powerfull for handheld, that alone will make it sell alot.

I don't like being rude, but that is an idiotic opinion.

 

Since when do generations refer to power? If that were the case, the Gamecube and Wii would be the same generation. 

 

Generations are timespans in which consoles release around the same time. Power has never been the deciding factor. 



Green098 on 01 February 2017
iNathan said:
Generation means a power leap, Switch is inferior to Xbox One to it should count as 7.5 Gen, Ps4 Pro and Scorpio are 9th gen not Switch lmao

Switch is a up console but with a great concept and very powerfull for handheld, that alone will make it sell alot.

No it doesnt, the Wii was barely more powerful than the gamecube yet it was still gen 7. It doesnt matter how powerful the hardware is. Its the successor to Nintendos 8th gen system (the Wii U) making it 9th gen in factual terms. PS4 Pro is not 9th gen for example as its an iteration on 8th gen system not a successor. 



Angelus on 01 February 2017

Really rather irrelevant. The only thing that matters is how it sells in comparison to whatever other systems are on the market.



GribbleGrunger on 01 February 2017
Bandorr said:
Odd question. I don't really consider it a gen 9 item.
I'd give it a new grouping.

Whether it be handheld, or a new gen like "hybrid" it will be alone.
And do you mean by the beginning or the end?

Seems easier to just ask how many Switches will be sold by the time PS5/Xb2(probably not Scorpio) by the time they come out.

I'd guess 30 million. It will be at least 3 years before either release a gen nine system.

Why is it an odd question? Are you sure you're not assessing it that way for convenience sake? As I said to someone else, a gen is a gen and it seems to me that both Sony and MS fans want to re-categorise Nintendo in order to perpetuate a PS v XB narrative.



 

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NoImBrian on 01 February 2017

Does anyone know how the PS4 Pro is selling? Is it flying off the shelves, has it flopped? I know PSVR has flopped but I've literally heard nothing about PS4 Pro sales figures



GribbleGrunger on 01 February 2017
Bandorr said:

For the reason I addressed later on. It isn't competing with the PS or the XB. At least not straight across.

It is a hybrid/handheld device. It is also launching probably 3 years before the other two even launch.

On top of that you didn't say rather it was lead at the beginning or the end. So it simply seems easier to just ask "how many switches will be sold".

Well , ok then, I'll rephrase the question: By the time the PS5 and (what ever the new XB is called) how many units will the Switch have sold?



 

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bonzobanana on 01 February 2017

As soon as you start thinking of the Switch as a home system it looks so awful. It's hardly moved on from the wii u in power which is getting on 5 years ago and that couldn't even match the power of consoles that came out about 6 years before that. I don't think it's in Nintendo's interests to call it a home console. It seems much more appealing as a powerful portable system rather than a horrifically weak home console. As soon as you say home console you start comparing it to ps4 and xbone and that is hugely damaging as it can't even get close to their performance level and actually costs a fair bit more.

You only have to see the Switch's primitive graphics which are struggling to get to 1080p native when docked. The wii was more competitive with the 360/ps3 than the Switch is with xbone/ps4.



GribbleGrunger on 01 February 2017
bonzobanana said:
As soon as you start thinking of the Switch as a home system it looks so awful. It's hardly moved on from the wii u in power which is getting on 5 years ago and that couldn't even match the power of consoles that came out about 6 years before that. I don't think it's in Nintendo's interests to call it a home console. It seems much more appealing as a powerful portable system rather than a horrifically weak home console. As soon as you say home console you start comparing it to ps4 and xbone and that is hugely damaging as it can't even get close to their performance level and actually costs a fair bit more.

You only have to see the Switch's primitive graphics which are struggling to get to 1080p native when docked. The wii was more competitive with the 360/ps3 than the Switch is with xbone/ps4.

But that's not the question I'm asking. Regardless of how powerful it is compared to the two other companies, how many Switches will have sold before Sony and Microsoft enter the 9th gen?



 

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Zoombael on 01 February 2017
NoImBrian said:
Does anyone know how the PS4 Pro is selling? Is it flying off the shelves, has it flopped? I know PSVR has flopped but I've literally heard nothing about PS4 Pro sales figures

Neither of them flopped.



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