Suggest a different source.

4K is the detrimental factor, just like the PS Pro. Only a minority of people have 4K televisions, not going to chnage significantly any time soon.

Pick a random user from a random thread on a random forum.

Like I said, it's not exactly about this topic now but in general. Everything some dude on Forbes writes will be posted on VGC. As if these Forbes contributers opinions is something everyone has to know about and if the opinion of writers on other sites is  something nobody needs.   

Even if it is about topics many sites write about and not a specific one like "Scorpio's problem is the Switch"

Buy both

This is not Forbe's stance on the matter, so please take it out of the title. This is just an individual's own view on the matter: "Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own."

Anyway, there's a good point there, but the article seems to mix predictions and personal opinions which reduces its merits.

This is so dumb.

Not that he Switch can't be successful in its own right, is just that the audiences between these platforms have very little crossover.

I don't think MS should consider Switch as a competition. Two different platforms. The only competition they should focus on is Sony. And Switch should be fine if Nintendo does everything right with it, because they don't have competitors for what they are doing.

P.S. I'm already sold on Switch. Getting it by the end of the year unless Nintendo's E3 dissapoints me (which is highly unlikely). Also getting Scorpio if it is really as powerful as it seems and what's more important if it has solid support from developers. PS4 Pro unfortunately doesn't seem to have enough developer support. The games only get patched sometime later and have the Pro mode at launch. Which is very dissapointing. And the fact that Sony made Turbo Mode shows that the developers doesn't seem to have interest in supporting this mid-gen refresh. So I really hope that Scorpio is more like next-gen console rather than mid-gen upgrade.

I'll bet money Scorpio is going to end up as a 9th gen platform despite MS' insistence that it will not have its own library. The is no logical sense in investing in making a higher model of a current platform that has been left behind by the market leader, Scorpio has such a leap over the X1 according to rumours that locking it to the latter is counter productive especially with the position the brand is in.

We don't know who the target audience is and the library is lacking incentive to buy it over the competition.

It can't really be 9th gen if it doesn't have it's own exclusives, and I'm not sure MS can afford another big lie by going back on that promise. Scorpio may be a good leap but it's not going to be generational, unless MS are going to surprise everyone by revealing it's much more powerful than first stated and release it for a ridiculous price.

As for target audience, it must be focusing on the hardcore. Not much of the general gaming population is going to spend that much on an upgraded Xbox, as we have seen with Pro. Even less so when Phil Spencer himself said you really need a 4k TV to notice the big differences.

Personally, it seems to me Microsoft have become fixated on power as they feel that it is the only thing they can really beat Sony on right now, so they are going all in on it. I really don't see how it does any better than PS4 Pro right now.