The NPD Group insists that the Kyoto hybrid is not a substitute for Sony and Microsoft machines, but a complementary supplement.
Four out of ten Nintendo Switch users also have a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One in the United States. According to internal sources of the NPD Group, an official data consultant in North America, the current hybrid platform of the Japanese firm is not a substitute for Sony and Microsoft's domestic solutions: there is no direct cannibalism.
So much so that, according to one of its main representatives, Mat Piscatella, the arrival of PS5 and Xbox Series X at Christmas 2020 will not have a significant direct impact on the sales of any of them, since those that are competition Direct are these last two. It is understood, however, that the buyer of a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox (real name of the next generation of Microsoft) will be more prone to the purchase of a Nintendo Switch than the counterpart of the two technology giants.
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What analysts say in the 2020 exercise
Serve as an extension to this information the recent article published by GamesIndustry, a compilation of opinions where internationally renowned market analysts make their estimates for the already begun year 2020. Notably, Mat Piscatella himself expects Nintendo Switch to lead the market. On the one hand, PS4 and Xbox One seem to have reached a ceiling in terms of hardware implementation; on the other, the arrival of PS5 and the new Xbox will not, at least at the beginning, prevent the Nintendo Switch from breaking records.
Worldwide, the Joy-Con console has more than 41.67 million units implanted (until September 30, 2019); It is expected to have exceeded 50 million at the end of this fiscal year, on March 31, 2020. From the report published by GamesIndustry there is a common denominator among all analysts: Nintendo Switch will dominate the market in 2020. We will leave doubts within twelve months.
