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curl-6 on 30 June 2019
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DonFerrari said:
curl-6 said:

Agreed; the market has shown that it is fine with the level of power the Switch offers.

A small minority of forum-going hardcore gamers may bemoan its graphics as unacceptable, but these people don't represent the average consumer. Furthermore, the argument that Switch "needs" a more powerful model to keep it from falling too far behind Sony and MS is flawed; 3DS didn't stop selling when PS4/Xbone came out, nor did the DS stop selling when PS3/360 came out.

I would like more power and better graphics even on Switch. But considering the sales and what the HW delivers the market is plenty satisfied.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think anyone would object to prettier graphics, (as long as it didn't come at a too great a cost to battery life, price, etc) I just meant that, as you say, consumers in general seem happy with its current power level.

Overall, I think we tend to underestimate the importance of lavish graphics to the general audience; look at the success of simplistic looking games like Minecraft, or the fact that almost every generation-winning system has not been the most powerful system of that generation.