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[FireFly]

Thats like saying you can plug in a XB controller in a laptop, plug it into a TV, plug the laptop into one of those external GPU things, keyboards and use Steambig picture mode etc, thus a desktop.

Those are not bad features btw, our point is that they don't magically make the system not portable, just like the above listed doesn't make that a desktop.

You can't sell that on Ebay and list it as a desktop and then be like "ok, you not seeing the whole concept doe, you have a mouse here, it CAN be placed on a desk" lol

Laptops are designed to be plugged in and sit on a desk, with monitors attached directly or through a dock. It's not some novel use case. And the largest "desktop replacement" laptops are arguably not intended to be routinely carried around at all. So while they will never be classified as desktops due to their form factor, they are designed and marketed to be used as desktop systems. In that context, their competition is at least partly "real" desktop manufacturers. Market competition does not require ontological identity!

 

[DenchDeckard]

Lol, Nintendo fanboys are desperate.


Yes, we know. PlayStation has over 50% of the worldwide market share when also counting Nintendo.

In addition to this, PlayStation in additon to being the top grossing gaming company in the world, it makes almost 3x times the revenue than Nintendo and has the almost the same active userbase in a month than Nintendo has it in a year. If we look individually their segments, Sony makes more revenue from hardware, software, accesories and gamesubs. Regarding console units, the two active PS consoles combined have sold more than the two active Nintendo consoles combined.

According to the factual and objective market data Sony is the clear console market leader, there isn't any kind of doubt. And their success is the main reason of why Sega, Nintendo and soon MS no longer make home consoles.

You think the ps5 has more market share than the switch and switch 2?

How is that possible?

Also, to me when I am actually really calculating the strength of a brand and it's popularity. There is a lot to take in.

I think Sony is huge in gaming but compared to Nintendo they are considerably behind in overall mindshare, sales, exlclusives, shit everything about them puts them as more successful and popular than Sony.

I don't know what metric you are talking about but if it is just revenue then that goes against what most people on here talk about.

Revenue doesn't mean shit.

 

[daclynk]

Sony doesn't have contracts with the military and intelligence of different countries, and isn't part of the deep state and hedge fund gangs. In any case what they do with stuff unrelated to gaming or how they perform doesn't matter in a gaming forum unless it affects them, which isn't then for Sony or MS.

Well, in case of MS it affects: their highly unprofitable gaming division would have been shut down decades ago if it wasn't due to the profits provided by the governments and so on.

oh so excuses for Sony i see.

So in the end Microsoft makes more and is larger than both.

 

[PeteBull]

Their next article gonna be "How Nazi Germany won WW2, deep dive"
Srsly tho, ninny's last proper stationary console was gamecube, wii from 2006 was already scaled back hardwarespecs wise so it eats 14Watts from the wall so that was company throwing the towel. Its competitiors aka ps360 were eating 84-90Watts.

 

[Three]

You think the ps5 has more market share than the switch and switch 2?

How is that possible?

Notice he said Playstation not PS5. While a lot of the 3DS audience moved on to Switch the number of PS4 users is still significant. Switch isn't really part of the home console gens. It's doing its own thing and normally getting games later.
Switch released in 2017 and if you do 2017 to 2025 Playstation has sold a lot of units. Playstation marketshare globally is likely leading. It's why their MAU in a month is greater than Nintendos in a year because it's a bigger audience that's playing across more devices. Though I don't trust that stat that much either because I believe fewer Switch owners play online and stick to offline only.

if you want to lump it into a "gen" then my question is why are you comparing PS5 to Switch 1 + Switch 2? Wouldn't PS4 + PS5 vs Switch 1 + Switch 2 then become more appropriate?

 

[Clear]

Whatever way you slice it, I find it hard to accept an argument that there can ever be considered a "winner" when there remain two highly successful competitors in the race!

Nintendo and Sony may be in the same businesses, but the reality is they barely compete.

Neither company shifts their launch schedules around to react to what the other is doing. Which I think has to be a crucial observable component of a true competitive environment.

 

[Trilobit]

We're called SonyPonies

I was going to write that, but I had some hidden memory in the back of my head that you could get banned if you went around calling people that.