Kyuu said:
"Holding back" was a valid concern until what happened this generation. The majority of AAA 3rd party games skipped the Switch. Major developers were forced to either hold back more capable consoles/PC by designing around Switch specs then scaling up, or designing around higher PS4~ specs then heavily tweaking a Switch version (which can be expensive), or simply skipping the platform altogether. PS5 was ultimately held back by the PS4 and Xbox One (like more powerful PC's are traditionally held back by consoles and weaker PC's) since they're the systems it shared its high profile AAA games with. It was a disappointment that killed the sense of generations. The concerns around Series S were justified too, as nobody really expected the cross-generational period to last so long. Everybody thought it was going to be relatively cheap and possible to wow us with nextgen goodness because that was the norm before the PS5 gen. PS5 proved that Sony launching a powerful device will not dictate the direction of the industry. At some point in the future, I expect mobile phones to be the base spec and everything else will be "held back" by them. |
We have a certain subset of PlayStation fans on this forum who have constantly been arguing that the Switch 2 is not powerful enough, games on it are borderline unplayable, etc. Same for Series S holding things back. I was addressing these people, saying they should embrace the versatility portability brings. Personally, I don't think concerns around Switch 2 and Series S were justified because the large majority of customers don't care, and I have the same opinion regarding the PS6 handheld.
