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> Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives as an independent console maker in the years to come. They ceded the traditional home console, and now everyone i

> Honestly, I don't know how Nintendo survives as an independent console maker in the years to come. They ceded the traditional home console, and now everyone is making portables. Valve's portable can play the entire retail Nintendo line for "free". I mean the switch has outsold the PS5. Your entire conjecture is wrong that they ceded the home console market. https://www.vgchartz.com/article/456387/ps5-vs-switch-sales-comparison-january-2023/ https://www.vgchartz.com/article/456387/ps5-vs-switch-sales-... Switch games have also outsold PS5 and XBox games 4 out of the last 5 years. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276768/global-unit-sales-of-video-game-consoles/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/276768/global-unit-sales... Nintendo is also profitable in a way the other 2 console manufacturers can only dream of.

Narishma 3y ago
What a weird comparison. The Switch released 3 or 4 years before the PS5. It's not surprising at all that it has outsold it.
- wzdd 3y ago
  It's outsold every home console currently available and also all the consoles from the previous generation, which is pretty surprising for something which "ceded the traditional home console" and which, when not in a handheld configuration, looks and plays very much like a traditional console. On the handheld question, Valve hasn't released numbers, but a Nov 2023 quote put Steam Deck sales at "multiple millions", so probably at the lower end of between 1 and 10. By contrast the Switch has sold 132 million units. That's somewhere between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude difference. It doesn't make much sense to make comparisons between them. I'm sure piracy of Nintendo games is far more common on PCs and laptops. Nintendo has been "dying" for decades -- just like Apple.