You shouldn't be counting chickens before they hatch. We don't know what kind of legs the ns will have. It could turn out to ha ve better legs than the ps2 or it could fizzle out quicker than expected. Sony doesn't need to risk any resources on something that's still experimental and might not work for them (if sony tried it) when they could use those resources on ps4 games and ps5 dev/games.

Subjective, sure, but only in the sense that their are people who see the perceived norm and decide they don't agree with it. Many of them have issue admitting that it's the norm and that their opinions are a deviation of the norm, though. But let's assume for a moment that this isn't a less popular notion, that generations have a graphical average:

The Switch is running games more closely akin to Sony and Microsoft's previous consoles rather than to their current consoles.

Those games aren't "dialed back to last gen" though; they may run at a low resolution but their core visual feature set is still beyond anything PS3/360 ever produced technologically speaking.

  



Aside from you obvious lack of understanding of hardware that makes your speculation of what Sony/AMD/whoever can make with existing hardware at an affordable price point hilariously out of touch, Sony has already made handheld game consoles featuring most of the franchises you listed, and people didn't go "absolutely crazy" for it. They made those "compromises" because as it turns out, making a handheld necessitates making compromises. Do you think Nintendo released a $299 Switch that struggles to play PS4 ports and only gets 3 hours battery life out of demanding titles for funsies? Sorry, there's no way in 2018 or 2019 to make a handheld for under $300 that can play Uncharted 4 "without compromise". The technology isn't there, and you're going to have to deal with it.

I also think it's hilarious that you claim to love "gaming first hardware" but still berate Nintendo for not releasing a Switch that's capable of connecting with cell phone networks and make phone calls. Which is it?

The thing that annoys me is talking that switch could receive a super dock, with extra memory and compute power.
No, it is technically impossible.

Fact that Switch not receiving some games doesn't mean that those games can be ported to Switch or that Switch cant run them. 

What you wrote don't have anything with what he wrote, he just wrote that comment is bad and he wrote why comment is bad, and he is totally right.

It's still not at the same level as last gen though; it's notably superior to PS3 and 360 even if it's also notably weaker than PS4/Xbone.

I love gaming first hardware, and I want to see gaming first hardware devices expand their reach so they can be a more viable option for a wider range of consumers. Am I not allowed to want more from my gaming first hardware?

Looking at the games you listed, they where all spin offs. People have very little interest in spin-offs, there is very little interest in spin-offs in the main console space, let alone asking people to buy another device just for spin-offs. Having the ability to play the same game on your home PS4 and your Mobile PS4 would be a very different situation. 

As for hardware.

Look at the 20nm Tegra X1 and the 16nm Tegra X2 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra

Compare them with the 14nm Raven Ridge Mobile chips (anything with a U at the end)

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/raven_ridge 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:AMD_Ryzen_Mobile

Now use a little foresight, and where do you land logically with a 7nm successor to Raven Ridge? Take into account that Performance Per Watt gains are a focus of AMD's Road Map.

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd_announces_plans_to_release_navi_and_zen_2_on_7nm/1

 Then remember, that Sony and AMD can work to make specific modifications that make the chip more power efficient and more capable than the stock chip, for use specifically in a Mobile PlayStation device as they did with the PS4 APU compared to stock AMD APU's of the time. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:AMD_custom_APU

Looking at all of this, it looks pretty plausible that AMD will be capable of producing a chip on 7nm that is capable of surpassing the PS4 in CPU and GPU power at under 15 Watts. Raven Ridge is already capable of running circles around the PS4 CPU, and the advanced GPU tech, even at lower total flops is capable of outperforming PS4. The base 7nm Ryzen Mobile chips will only increase the power gap and reduce the power consumption. From there they can make modifications to support memory as needed, reduce power as needed, and increase performance as needed for a custom PlayStation Chip. 

I'm afraid DF said PS4 No