I'd agree. It's able to reach an interesting marker: PC gamers who appreciate the console-itude of it with the new joycon features, and casual phone gamers. My wife is an avid phone gamer. Mostly word games, but she buys every Mario and Mario adjacent title that comes out.
Walls are closing in on Sony. PS5 is banking on PS4 inertia, covid bump and Microsoft having the worst luck of all time with their developer employees. I still standby the notion that they made a lot of good decisions and got let down by very poor quality of work from the developers they hired. No one on GAF would have balked on this list of projects pre-launch.
- Brand new Halo title with ton of money behind it.
- Bethesda making a brand new Elder Scrolls-like IP but it takes place in outer space
- Arkane making an FPS where you hunt vampires in the modern era
- Obsidian making Skyrim New Vegas
- Brand new Gears installment
And the devs shat the bed on each and every one. Not to mention getting fucked by the business side of things where you don't retain your exclusives and aren't allowed to leverage the COD ownership and making the rule that every feature of every game had to be available on Series S. Plus negative inertia from the Xbone.
If Switch 2 can avoid a curse like this, I think they're in good shape. The hardware spec looks good. I'm reliably informed by GAF that slop scalers are actually better than native res, and they're the only console with an Nvidia chip.