"Still, I feel like all of these microconsoles are pretty much destined to be niche players that don't really satisfy a wide market need."
Successfully profiting on a niche is now failure by default? Really?
This whole concept that every product needs to appeal to everyone all the time is complete cancer and is why we don't have B-tier games anymore (which imo were always far and away the best in the industry). It needs to come to an end.