Sony Believes Nearly Half of PS5 Owners in the US Also Have a Switch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2023 / 7,346 Views
An internal survey by Sony Interactive Entertainment has been posted as part of today's Microsoft vs FTC hearing. The survey details were poorly redacted and could still be read.
The survey shows that nearly half of PlayStation 5 owners in the US also own a Nintendo Switch and less than 20 percent also own an Xbox Series X|S.
"According to SIE internal surveys, almost half of PlayStation 5 owners in the United States also own a Nintendo Switch, while less than 20% of PlayStation 5 owners in the United States also own an Xbox Series X or S."
Poorly redacted documents have also revealed Horizon Forbidden West had a budget of $212 million and The Last of Us Part II cost around $220 million to develop.
Thanks, The Verge.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Nintendo's Blue Ocean strategy makes it way more logical to have a PlayStation or Xbox to compliment it. There's way less logic in having a PlayStation and Xbox without a Nintendo platform, especially from Xbox One to the present.
I personally see no point on owning both PS and XB, aside from the fact that you just can and that's it.
It makes a lot more sense to own a PS or XB and a Switch to compliment it.
Makes sense. It would be interesting to see if the statistics for Xbox owners are about the same. My guess is they are.
I wonder how many out there are like myself with a PC/Switch combo lol. There's becoming less of a reason to own the major consoles outside of Nintendo's. Xbox primarily but less so PlayStation.
Yeah, really only if you’re super into PS exclusives do you have a reason to get a PS5 if you play on PC. PC players definitely don’t need to buy an Xbox for exclusives, and many won’t mind waiting for a PS exclusive to eventually get ported. Nintendo is really the only one requiring you get their console for exclusives.
I don’t like consolidation in the industry, but I don’t mind consolidation in my gaming hardware lol
Well, there are about 4 times as much Switches in the wild in NA than Series consoles according to VGC. So in that regard having only 2.5 as much in the subgroup of PS5-owners seems that PS5 owners tend to like Xbox more than Nintendo.
Seeing these game budgets is really interesting to me.
I do.
