This thread has been fucking hilarious, it's been full of idiots making idiotic arguments. So entertaining.
Did they?
Switch was released in 2017 , PS5 was released in 2020 but PS4 was also selling in Switch timeline which would bring us to around 190 million PlayStations sold since 2013
If this is how you want to do it (it is completely batshit lunacy and cope of the highest order to do it this way, but I want to prove to you how wrong you are, so let's), then PS4 sold 55 million units after March 2017; using that plus the 75 million PS5 sold, the total console sales for PlayStation between 2017 to now are 130 million.
Guess what the total console sales for
just the Switch are in this period.
Isn't it ironic that the last year or so people on here was trying to push the narrative that without Microsoft directly competing with PlayStation it was going to be bad for the consumer because of lack of competition but Nintendo & Microsoft jumped out ahead of PlayStation with the higher Game prices & Series X is around $100 more than PS5 ( for now)
Sony has raised the prices of hardware, software,
and services three separate times this generation in every country except the U.S.
Believe it or not, there is a whole world that exists outside of the U.S.! I hope you get to see it one day
Seriously does Sony have any big titles confirmed for 2025.
Are there any "i must own a PS5" games on the horizon?
This is so fucking stupid, Sony has Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 for this year as first party exclusives, Lost Soul Aside as a second party partner game, and Marathon as a first party release that's launching Multiplatform. That's also not counting releases like Intergalactic or Wolverine.
Please tell me the 5-6 games Nintendo has released on a yearly basis the last 3-4 years.
2022:
Pokemon Legends Arceus
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Splatoon 3
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Bayonetta 3
2023:
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Pikmin 4
Fire Emblem Engage
Pokemon Detective Pikachu Returns
Metroid Prime
2024:
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Mario and Luigi: Brothership
Super Mario Party Jamboree
Emio The Smiling Man
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
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Just to be clear, this is not every Nintendo game released in these years, not even by the current standards we are applying, I just picked a handful of notable games to make the point. Nintendo averages one major release every month, their level of output, at least quantitatively, is incomparable to any other company on the market. The fact that this has to be explained boggles my mind.
I love how we just pretend Wii U wasn't the one releasing close to the PS4 and not the Switch, lmao.
The Switch only exists because Nintendo had to release a console after Wii U flopped badly...that one was the one competing with the PS4 but we just pretend it never happened.
Also...looking at units sold isn't even the main metric for these companies, it's MAU and Playstation has more users.
Y'all rally need to stop thinking about generations. Even Nintendo is starting to not do that.
I actually agree with you on the first half of what you said, Nintendo fanboys have a tendency to ignore the Wii U and how badly it failed; the Switch was an amazing recovery, but it was an amazing recovery from Nintendo's first attempt to go up against the PS4, which failed so badly they had to release a second system in the same generation.
That said, just as a heads up, Nintendo's reported active user figure as of last count was 125 million, which is the exact same as PlayStation's, so you are wrong about the second thing, both companies report roughly the same number of active users (obviously there is minor variation from one reporting period to the next).