Exactly all that bruhaha about how PS4 Pro was going to piss off consumers ... a whole lot of nothing. Where are those people who were crying about that anyway? They've gone deathly quiet now.
Guess what? Scorpio will increase MS' hardware sales and they will likely make a fatter profit margin on the Scorpio too, just as Sony does.
Beyond that a mid-gen refresh would work better for Nintendo IMO, for PS4 Pro or Scorpio you really need a 4KTV, which is an additional $1000-$2000 investment.
A Tegra Xavier based Switch around 2020 would come with everything needed right out of the box for $300. No big deal.
Also the Switch is not the same hardware philosophy as the Game Boy/DS line was ... the Tegra X1 was until the X2 came out (and it's only available now in limited quantities for Jetson kits for hobbyist developers) the most powerful mobile chip on the market or pretty damn close to it. It's so powerful the current Switch can't even run it at 80% clock. It's a $300 device, which is a premium device price point. This is not some cheap little toy with a 10 year old chip. It's a 2015 chip in a product that likely was supposed to be out for fall 2016, that's likely the most up to date chip Nintendo has used since perhaps the Nintendo 64.
The Switch is not relying on casual gimmicks either to *drive* hardware adoption, there is no Wii Sports or Brain Training 20 million seller here that's causing Switch to fly off shelves or soccer moms lining up for it. This is a different kind of product, indeed more in line with Nintendo's 90s philosophy of reasonably higher end tech. As such I think there's greater incentive to keep the hardware relatively fresh and able to offer higher-end experiences as it's more central to the appeal of the system. It's not a gimmick-driven platform as the Wii was that's going to rely on things like Wii Sports for sales, nor is it a budget $99 Game Boy that's mainly going to sell to Pokemon kids, it cannot have fading appeal over the years to enthusiast gamers or be seen as something that is out of date.
