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Barkley said:
rjason12 said:

Have you ever thought that maybe people think the same exact way about PlayStation or Xbox? Maybe I don't want to pay 400$ for something I don't want (or even if it's cheaper). I mean if you don't want to buy "inferior hardware" then go PC, because the other two are outdated almost as soon as they are released. People are acting like the Switch is super "inferior" when the hardware is like comparing apples to oranges. 

Yeah there's people that do, but judging by hardware sales it's no where near as many, regardless I was talking about my personal opinion.

I prefer console gaming for a variety of reasons, and for the price the power you recieve from ps4/xbo is cost effective. Switch isn't even close. As for apples and oranges... well hardware isn't that difficult to compare, the features you can't compare such as portability, hd rumble and the weird IR rock paper scissors tech I don't really care for.

Switch is underpowered hardware with many features I don't care for, I don't want it. But If the must-have games come I'll have to buy one, with a bitter taste in my mouth.

It is hard to compare when they are drastically different pieces of hardware, those two run on AMD, and Nintendo runs through Nvidia. I wasn't talking about specific features. And the point still stands, PS4 and xbone are drastically underpowered compared to gaming pcs. I don't have one myself, but my buddy's pc blows current consoles out of the water, and he didn't spend too much on it, he's also getting a Switch because for Nintendo games. That's the reason you always hear people having pcs and Nintendo, not pcs and xbone/PlayStation.

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Plus as you pointed out. You would have to buy their system in order to get their games. They know at the very least (like the Wii U pointed out) that a core amount of people will buy their systems to play their games. Close to 14 million consoles sold almost solely on their first party offerings (which at some points had droughts).