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Power is more important than portability, with a big caveat: there are so many gradients of power. And power in the hands of a poor developer is useless.

The Switch is on its way to becoming the best system on the market because it gets the best games, courtesy of developers who know what they’re doing. It’s a far cry from the most powerful platform but it has enough horsepower to support Nintendo’s internal teams. Similarly, many of the best games on PS4 don’t even come close to taking full advantage of its tech; they’d be perfectly playable on Vita or last-gen systems. Some would be playable on a toaster.

So, to bend the rules a little:

Powerful (enough) > portability > bleeding edge power