Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't home consoles a different case from the portable ones? There wasn't a need to improve it's performance gameplay wise because most games ran just fine and weren't as taxing on the system with or without the upgrade.
Moviebob is a great example of this. During the prime of the pixel art platformer revival with games like Shovel Knight and Spelunky, Bob was lamenting the death of pixel art platformers and was complaining about Call of Duty and the mishandling of Starfy.
And have that "drought" mindset . Its like... Play other games.
This is sadly a common trend and/or cycle. Wii U failed not only just for the name, but also the lack of third-party support. Now when Switch succeeded, Nintendo fanboys then complain about how the Directs are filled with third-parties and claim they only buy the consoles for Nintendo games. This isn't even new either if you consider even older Nintendo consoles that had similar success/failure fates. It's just tiring.
A big cause of this is because Nintendo of old had a fuckload of outlets to advertise shit to make it feel more grand and exclusive. You had TV shows pimping the hell out of Mario and Zelda, you had Nintendo Power hyping shit up, Nintendo would also mail you VHS advertisements, they had advertisements plastering the walls of ToysRUs and Kaybee, you had this whole ecosystem of marketing that isn't there anymore. All the advertising has been consolidated to the internet. I mean the 16 bit console war had massive and prominent advertising campaigns with many memorable commercials airing during kid's shows on TV.
The Pro just being a revision is a hill I'm going to die on, especially since Nintendo claims that we are only mid cycle of the Switch, there's a parts shortage and the Switch just hit it's biggest sales figures.
That's funny, because I remember the Switch reveal when Nintendo fans were going bananas because Skyrim was coming to the Switch. It was being pushed hard as a system seller, but everyone outside the Nintendo bubble was indifferent as anyone interested in Skyrim had played it, or could get it cheaply on any other system.
The New 3Ds was also a revision but it had exclusives that only worked on that form of hardware, there's still a chance that the switch pro fractures the user base if the exclusives are that major.
The whole thing about the switch revision though is that they're saying they're upping the power. So it's not just a revised system design with the same clock speed/power settings. You could wind up with many switch games running like Cyberpunk did on the PS4.
The Switch still has yet to see a price cut in any region and 2021 was forecast to be the system's strongest year. It also reached 20 million units in Japan recently, making 5th place among high-selling consoles just behind the PS2 (21 million) and the 3DS (25 million). And Switch game softwares sales are ridiculously strong too, even for third-parties that never really had a history with Nintendo before and used to be more part of the PS library, such as Akiba's Trip or EDF. A new hardware revision is unlikely right now
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Speaking of Japanese sales, I read something recently about how even PlayStation is dying off there, and Nintendo has a virtual monopoly in Japan. What's the point of 4K support when most of your playerbase is perfectly fine with a portable 720p screen? Why invest the money? Knowing how Nintendo fans just are, they could seriously just release blue and purple Switches as tie-ins with Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Bitchin' Pearl, and the next day, you could check Reddit and see plenty of pictures of Switch collections where mongoloids with too much money have bought up every single color variant and pleasingly lined them up like they're trying to replicate an ad.
The articles about the playstation dying off in japan were going off of a sales chart depicting game sales for elementary schoolers. This especially rings false since Sony is the one behind Demon Slayer and every single other form of media tied to it. They've also cut deals with game tie-ins backed by anime series and anime tie-ins backed by game series. Being that like 90% of new anime is based on Manga or Novels this ties back into the Kadokawa deal since publishing houses like Yen press is Kadokawa's subsidiary and Sony invested in them. Kadokawa is also the parent company of Fromsoft.
NCL's market remains primarily japanese while SIE is catering to westerners (while giving the middle finger to everyone in Japan after the shift in leadership, which is translated by various things such as the globalized X/O button layout with no option to revert back, the poor amount of PS5 allocated in the japanese market done on purpose, the censorship strikes against third-parties, etc).
Dude you're reading shit off of shitty clickbait articles if you're citing the X/O change.