Mario Kart? The second best-selling Mario Kart was on Wii. 

Momotaro it´s a console game with a coop option. Mario Party was a coop machine too. Fishing games have the same aspect ( but a switch is a portable machine? Hybrid nature, the portable use seems different than a portable only console). Couch coop was a strong feature in sales of Nintendo Switch.  

The portable rhetoric it´s not sustainable when more than  1/2 of the games don´t work best in a portable solution.  A portable approach fails Sony too (Psvita x 3ds). Sony doesn´t treat portable consumers likewise stationary consumers, this is a problem for sales.  Sony believes only appears on the market and will win, and the data say otherwise.

The portable rhetoric was not accurate when the Switch Lite it´s not the main driver of sales. Sony loses japan market to Nintendo because sony doesn´t understand the Japanese market without 3rd party massive support.  When sony deviates the support into portable and stationary the downfall begins. The most powerful force of Sony in videogames was its massive library when lost what remains? 

Why does Nintendo taking over effect Sony and Playstation sales but when someone mentions the new consoles effecting the switch, they're "not in direct competition?"


I generally agree with the statement they aren't in direct competition but also can't help see that narrative goes against it.

And the best selling was a DS game. With 3DS Mario Kart 7 also easily outselling original Mario Kart 8 on Wii U. Mario Kart is very strong on portable platforms

The rest of your rant is all over the place and has nothing to do with my actual point. Of course Switch has both portable and stationary crowd, that was what I was literally addressing with my post. Sony used to have some space in stationary console space during PS4 days, but not anymore and Switch also got this piece of market share. 

Seems like you just can't control yourself when seeing an opportunity to jab Sony poor state in Japan, I wonder if that's why I never see you in Global sales thread, there aren't many negative things to comment on there. 

They aren't in direct competition in the sense both are disputing the same pool of customers and making them choose between one system or other likewise Xbox does

But Switch strong presence in Japan is making games that used to be exclusive from Sony to be released on Switch. As JP developers, besides the real big ones, don't take much advantage of hardware and Japanese people don't seem really interested in better graphics PS5 offers little value over Switch: It's a more expensive system that offers mostly the same games without Nintendo exclusives

So they can stick to having only one console when in past they could have purchased both Sony and Nintendo

That sounds like direct competition.

I'm starting to think Japan is the exception to that rule tbh. 

Well, yes you're right. They are direct competition right now, but they weren't as most of the software in one system used to not be on other

I still think most people are underestimating the PS5.

Hype and FOMO for it are through the roof, and it has yet to really get many system selling exclusives. In time though it will, and the supply issues currently crippling it will alleviate.

A lot is being made of it having stronger competition than the PS4, but Switch occupies a very different niche, and while Xbox Series is doing better than the Xbone, PS5 only has to compete against one alternative home console instead of two with the PS4. 

It will pass 100 million with ease, and I would not be surprised if it outsells the PS4.

So you're saying that Sony's drop in Japan is due to Nintendo?

I think the reason is more that Sony more and more  emphasized the western markets and seemed to care less and less about the tastes of Japanese players. As such, the reason that Sony dropped in Japan is Sony itself, the only input Nintendo had was that they stayed on their course while Sony deviated from it.

Since the Wii Playstation really only competes with Xbox anymore. This includes the PS4, as such the PS5 has more competition than the PS4, not less.

I think most people are overestimating the PS5.

Some gamers are not going to be able to go back to a home only console after playing a hybrid for several years.  Others are not going to go back to purchasing games after they've tried a Gamepass subscription.  Another chunk is simply going to XBox, because of recent acquisitions.

PS5 sales are front loaded.  The current demand is from hardcore PS4 owners, who do not fit into any of the groups I mentioned in the previous paragraph.  Once they have their PS5's, demand for it will dry up pretty quickly.