Eddie-Griffin
Fahdis
As much as I like Switch which is my preferred platform due to portability, I personally just tired of marketing gimmicks. I remember back in February in one of random thread we have like this three camp of people debating, one camp think its a home console, another one think its a hybrid, and the third one think its a handheld
@IFireflyl , and it was pointless, this kind of debate always ends in agree to disagree, everyone are entitled to their own opinion.
For me personally I think its "a handheld that come with a packed in HDMI/USB hub, with an innovative but terrible built quality and uncomfortable controller". Maybe a lot people do consider it a hybrid or home console, you don't have to give me the statistics I totally believe they would, this just shows people buys into marketing gimmicks, it has nothing to do with proving what the device actually is. Its just like Sega claim Genesis had blast processing but in reality it just had a slightly faster CPU, but people buy into that in the 90s and it took decades to debunk that crap. You see marketing is like a jackpot, sometimes you hit it, some time it went terrible, like when PS3 is announced they just have to market it as a "its not a game console, it's the center of home entertainment that have super computer capability" and we all see how stupid that was, but sometimes marketing did worked like in the case for Genesis and Switch. Nintendo at least from Wii era they decided they can not compete with Microsoft or Sony in terms of raw power, so they tried all different type of weird stuff and marketing with mixed results, and Switch is one of their most successful experiment.
What I'm saying is I'm personally not a fan of marketing gimmicks, I like to see the plastic box as how exactly it is so "a handheld that come with a packed in HDMI/USB hub, with an innovative but terrible built quality and uncomfortable controller" is fine for me
(Why? Because the device had the power and performance of of a handheld, I think most sane people will not set their expectation for it to have identical graphic and performance of a XBOX or Playstation, adding a Hub doesn't change that fact, its just like I wouldn't expect a Laptop of having the same performance as a Desktop even if the said Laptop brand marketed as a hybrid PC with a packed in Hub and M/K, It just sound silly). Just like for me back then "PS2 was a game console that was disguised as DVD player to trick parent to buy the damn thing". In terms of honesty, I have to give props to Steam deck, it marketed as a handheld PC instead of "Super Hybrid all in one device capable of every type of workflow" and trust me valve adding a dock for the damn thing is cheaper than you think.
I might trigger a lot of warriors, but that's just my opinion, agree to disagree. I personally don't have brand loyalty to any plastic box
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And as for the topic, there are many possibilities, it already surpassed PS4 in a lesser amount of time, Switch sold 100 million in 5 year which PS4 had around 86 million in 5 year, if Nintendo decided they are confident with the Switch and giving it another 5 years lifespan, it could definitely surpass PS2, but I think when we were to compare sales here, lets not forget the amount of time is also a important statistic, like how long for it to reach a certain number should also factored in. Just like in my prior example, I would say Switch already surpassed PS4 in terms of sales despite the total sales number is still around 10 million behind (117 million for PS4), but PS4 had like 5 years to reach 86 million while Switch did more than 100 million in 5 year. PS3 was officially launched in the end of 2006 which is 6 years after PS2 launched where they shifted focus to newer generation, giving a 6 year of focus, although I used to be a GameCube guy, but that number is pretty incredible if you ask me. It just felt weird to me let say if Nintendo continue to focus on Switch for 10+ year gap to their next gen device, to compare its sale number to something with a 6 years gap generation, but that's just me.