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, thehighly-coveted PlayStation 5(and theXbox Series X) may yet fail to beat a tried-and-true gaming staple come autumn.
Japanese blogEsuteruhas transcribed adocument from the research divisionofAce 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, butduring the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s actually seen a profit boost of 48%.
In addition to that, the Nintendo Switch has beennotably difficult to track downon 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 theNintendo Switchretails at an MSRP of $299.99, whereas its more handheld-friendly counterpart, theSwitch Lite, retails at $199.99. Both devices can be carried around and played anywhere, and the Nintendo Switch library itself nowcarries a vast variety of console-quality games, some of which even offer crossplay features that allow them to team up with or against players onPlayStation 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 doesnot yet have a formal release dateor MSRP, however, it’s not unfair to project a November release date at this point on. Here’swhat we knowso far.
