Is the Switch really more of a secondary system rather than a primary system?

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JohnVG said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

For me, I've played Switch a lot more in the past 8 years than any other system.  Sometimes I will play a game on PS4, but not that often.  I don't own a PS5 or X|S, and I have no definite plan to buy one in the future.

Switch really is where gaming is at right now, and soon Switch 2 will be the main console where gaming is at.  PS5 only gets a few games each year that are not also on PS4.  PS5 is kind of a pathetic platform (and X|S is even worse).  To me PS5 gamers look a lot like N64 gamers from back in the day.  The main gaming platform has shifted to a different company, but they haven't realized it yet.

the difference is... N64 had, in fact, lots of exclusive games PSX users always wanted (Mario 64, Star Fox 64, GoldenEye, Turok series (4 games), Ocarina of Time and Majora's, Mario Kart 64 and Diddy Kong Racing, Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie and sequel, Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Wave Race 64, Conker Bad Fur Day, Pokémon Stadiums, F-Zero X, Super Smash Bros., both F-1 WGP, ISS series (a different one from the PSX Winning Eleven based) and for sure, many others depending on the tastes, like Goemon 64, Castlevania 3D games, Star Wars Racer, Paper Mario, PilotWings 64, Ogree Battle 64, Body Harvest, Hybrid Heaven, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Mario Parties,...

Of course PSX already had exclusives like FFVII or MGS, but in the end, many PSX games had good or excellent exclusives alternatives in N64 (like WDC for GT, 1080 for the Cool Boarders series, or Mace, Fighter's Destiny or Flying Dragon instead of Tekkens).
And many other great games just appeared as multiplatform games, like Forsaken, Shadowman, Mortal Kombat 4, V-Rally, Tony Hawk series, or Rayman 2 (this last one, a year later in PSX). Also, that impossible port of RE2 for N64, with extras, plus analogue controls option for the first time in the series.

(Man, even that RE Zero ALMOST appeared for the N64 as an exclusive: They cancelled it and turned it a GC game far in its development. Like Nintendo did with Eternal Darkness. Both would have been HUGE releases in the last N64 days).

PSX basically totally defeated N64 only if you loved classic role playing games. PSX started to got a huge colossal quantity of them by late 1997. But until FFVII arrived in the western world, Saturn had a better RPG games catalogue than PSX, and that's (surprisingly for many) true.

PS5, instead, basically have almost none exclusives games Switch users really want: They have already almost everything.

Not really that different.  N64 had a small amount of exclusive games compared to other consoles of the 90's.  PS5 has a small amount of exclusive games by today's standards.  Some people really like those exclusives.  A person could say that Baldur's Gate 3 (for example) is worth the purchase of a PS5, just like people make the case for the various N64 games.  In the end the Switch has a lot more games available than the PS5, and the PS1 had a lot more games available than the N64.  A lot of the reason why people bought the N64/PS5 is that the SNES/PS4 were successful systems, respectively.  The gaming environment has changed and some people transition slower than others.