PS5 Projected to Lose to Nintendo Switch this Holiday Season

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Leading up to the PS5 launch, a Japanese industry analyst predicts the Nintendo Switch will enjoy a victory over the latest Sony console.
The 2020 holiday season is hardly around the corner and it’s hard to contain our excitement about the release of the upcoming PS5. However, the highly-coveted PlayStation 5 (and the Xbox Series X) may yet fail to beat a tried-and-true gaming staple come autumn.

Japanese blog Esuteru has transcribed a document from the research division of Ace Securities Co., an asset management firm which apparently has a few toes dipped into the games industry, featuring an analyst’s opinion that the Nintendo Switch will vastly outperform against the new PS5.

Note that the document is written entirely in Japanese, so unless you can read and navigate through several pages of kanji characters, you’ll probably want a good translator to help you read it in more detail. Here’s the English-translated excerpt as it appears in the Esuteru blog post.



According to the analyst, there are several reasons why the Nintendo Switch is slated to outperform a next-gen console as hyped as the PS5.

The analyst reports that Nintendo increases profits at a rate of roughly 10% year-over-year, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s actually seen a profit boost of 48%.

In addition to that, the Nintendo Switch has been notably difficult to track down on retail and digital storefronts worldwide. As production resumes course, the analyst posits, demand will remain heightened as Switch consoles begin petering back into stores across the globe before and during the 2020 holiday season.

It’s important to note here that the Nintendo Switch retails at an MSRP of $299.99, whereas its more handheld-friendly counterpart, the Switch Lite, retails at $199.99. Both devices can be carried around and played anywhere, and the Nintendo Switch library itself now carries a vast variety of console-quality games, some of which even offer crossplay features that allow them to team up with or against players on PlayStation and Xbox consoles and/or PC.

These prices may be considerably lower than the PS5, which is rumored to release at a base MSRP of $499.99 or higher.

The PlayStation 5 does not yet have a formal release date or MSRP, however, it’s not unfair to project a November release date at this point on. Here’s what we know so far.



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OGTrey079Posted:

ccno I'm not sure if this is true, the switch has a head start but overall I think ps5 will win!

Switch got more console sellers over the ps5 in terms of games. Specs don't sell consoles, games do.

THQPosted:

I can see truth to this, think about it, switch is HOT right now, been sold out everyone since the pandemic has a good lineup of games. I live in East Tennessee which is a small area but a lot of people still don't even know about the Xbox series X and PS5. It's like the marketing for it has not been good what so ever. I really could see this happening

0101010101010101Posted:

ccno I'm not sure if this is true, the switch has a head start but overall I think ps5 will win!

Post is referring to the holiday season. So it's not started yet

junoPosted:

I'm not sure if this is true, the switch has a head start but overall I think ps5 will win!

EightThotzPosted:

Short term no, long term depends

Mario350Posted:

Anime Nintendo usually always does well supposedly a new switch comes out sometime 2021.


seems like you forgot wiiu failed. and theres not gonna be a new switch anytime soon if there is ill be surprised.

ot: well considering sony is only 10million consoles due to covid yeah i can see switch killing it that is if theres switches even then in november

0101010101010101Posted:

Honestly wouldn't surprise me tbh

tO0tPosted:

I'd be surprised if this was the case with the ps5 being brand new hardware.

AnimePosted:

Nintendo usually always does well supposedly a new switch comes out sometime 2021.