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Jim Ryan believes Nintendo is in a different market.

The FTC and Microsoft have been battling over whether the Nintendo Switch is a game console and whether it competes with the PlayStation and Xbox. Sony’s PlayStation chief Jim Ryan says “we consider Nintendo to participate in a different market segment to Xbox and PlayStation.” When asked to expand on that, he says:

Nintendo’s hardware technology is of a much less sophisticated nature to PlayStation or Xbox. Its hardware typically retails for a cheaper price and its audience is aimed rather younger.

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