Nintendo is unneccessary, Playstation has more and better exclsuives AND 3rd party support.

I am pretty sure they do, just look how games Sony released on PS4 and how many Nintendo on dead Wii U, or on PS3 and Wii. Fact is that Sony never had anything similar that is so strong or big like Pokemon, it has Gran Turismo and now U4 has great sales, and TloU had good, but Pokemon is much stronger than any of those IPs plus has huge strong IPs like Animal Crossing, 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Zelda and now Splatoon seems it will be very strong, also plenty of ther IPs that are not so strong (Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi, Mario Sports, Metroid, Pikmin, Xeonblade, DK, Yoshi, Kirby, Fire Emblem, Star Fox, Wario...).Dont get me wrong I think that Sony has good, strong and variety IPs, but when comes to great exclusive games, Nintendo is king. Offcourse huge plus for Sony is also very strong 3rd party support historically and espacily on PS4, thats why you have plenty of people that will buy Sony console even if they don't care about Sony exclusives (GTAV, CoD, Fifa, Battlefield...), but that isnt case with Nintendo, with Nintendo console you know that 9 of 10 people will buy Nintendo console just beacuse of Nintendo games.

Saying that, I have Wii U, and I have PS4 that I bouth in order to play TLoU, Uncharted Trilogy, Bloodborne and some other future Sony games, but also to play 3rd party games like Dark Souls, Resident Evil, Witcher 3..., while I will buy Switch just to play Nintendo games on 1st place.

I´d mention how successful the PSVita was...... but someone already did

It's unnecessary if you want to play great Nintendo games, but buy your point Playstation also inst unnecessary if you have PC. Playstation has much better 3rd party support, but hardly has more, stronger or better exclusives (IPs) than Nintendo.

Not really, if we look at number of released games or active IPs, critical exception and sales of those games, than you have pretty clear picture. Of Course anywhone can say what games are better for him, but that doesnt change what I wrote. Sony never had anything similar that is so strong or big like Pokemon, it has Gran Turismo and now U4 has great sales, and TLoU has great popularity, but Pokemon is much stronger than any of those IPs plus Nintendo has huge strong IPs like Animal Crossing, 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Zelda and now Splatoon seems it will be very strong, also plenty of ther IPs that are not so strong (Paper Mario, Metroid, Pikmin, Xeonblade, Mario Sports, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, Kirby, Mario Party, Fire Emblem, Star Fox, Mario & Luigi, Wario...).

They succeed because they create good hardware, they partner well with other developers, they have excellent marketing, and put a lot of effort in. They allow their first party's a good deal of freedom to make games that likely aren't going to sell several million.

The only PlayStation not to succeed, the Vita, seemed to lack any effort on Sony's part at all. They dropped support like a brick. Killzone Mercenary was the last big game they supported it with, and that was just 1.5 years into the systems life.

Let's not go there. If Nintendo is unnecessary, why does their games keep selling so well and garnering positive to critical reception? Why did so many people run to play BoTW at E3? Why is Nintendo having a great market cap since the Wii/DS era? Why are their handhelds able to dominate even Sony's handhelds despite being less powerful than theirs? Why are we getting excited to see their plans for their theme parks? Why does the media and gamers still talk about Nintendo if they're unnecessary?

The best thing I see for Sony this gen is that their 1st/2nd party games are really selling very well. This is a very good sign for me for sure.

This is definitely true, their best selling game on PS3 (GT5) has already been surpassed by Uncharted 4.

Their second best seller on PS3 (Uncharted 3) sold 6.74m and Horizon Zero Dawn will probably pass that, God of War on ps4 will be the best selling entry in that franchise also. PlayStation are getting some really big sellers this generation and building some really strong first party franchises.

Which is weird to me. I tried BOTW and I just didn't see the hype. Horizon on the other hand the story telling alone blows aways anything BOTW is trying to do. So many great and memorable characters.

Either way the most fascinating thing here is that Nintendo hasn't had a GOTY since Resident Evil 4. That's crazy.