Richard? Sure, he's been mostly out of touch for the better part of DF existence.

Oliver and John? Nah. There are Nintendo haters, then there are Nintendo evangelists, they (Oliver in particular), are right in the middle, where they should be.

They're all out of touch, the channel by its nature is for a niche, tiny audience who obsesses over counting pixels. 

Real gamers are more like this, with the new WWE game they're seeing on Switch 2 and getting an experience much closer to basically a current gen console and they can take that anywhere, that is a big step up from 3rd party versions of some Switch 1 games (WWE 18 apparently was a train wreck on Switch 1, this one looks and plays very close to modern consoles).

You show an average person who is interested in a game like this and used to it only being on a console, and generally the impression I bet is going to be one of being impressed, not to the other way around. If the Madden NFL port on the Switch 2 is decent, it will be the same, you show someone who's really into Madden that and they are more likely to go "wow, this is cool, I can play Madden just like my PS5 basically but anywhere!" moreso than "the pixel resolution is low! I'd have to count the pixels but I'm pretty sure it is", lol. 

DF is a tech website. Real gamers  are impressed with WWE on switch 2 cause it's basically the ps4 version?

DF is a niche website that has a laughably tiny following, they're not indicative of the regular audience. You show the average WWE fan who plays on a PS5 the Switch 2 version and generally the impression is going to be positive. 

Hybrids are going to do the same thing to gaming that MP3 and video streaming did to audio and home video viewing ... it will get "good enough" that people don't care about top of the line.

There are videophiles to this day who will scream in people's faces that Blu-Ray physical discs have way better image quality than Netflix, but no one wants to go back to getting up off their ass and changing discs and had to buy movies one at a time anymore. Netflix looks good enough in HD/4K, shit most people don't even care about the 4K option anymore, regular HD looks good enough to them. The standard 1080p Netflix plan is the most popular even though 4KTVs are dirt cheap (you practically can't even buy a non-4K set these days). 

Similar thing is going to follow in gaming I think, Sony is also going to have a low spec hybrid PS6 which is basically going to be a sub-PS5 in performance and that's going to force devs to have to make sure there's a playable version for that little machine too, because it probably is going to get a following. Their home console division is not growing at all, PS5 is likely going to sell less than the PS4. 

I can agree with you graphics are good enough. The CPU is the bigger problem in a age where most games are 60fps we need a locked 30fps at least.

PS6 generation is going to blow chunks, you can already see it coming.

The "Portable PS6" that they're going to push is actually going to be in raw power considerably less performance than even a base PS5, so for 2027/2028, it's going to be below 2020 home console performance. But enough people are going to buy that model that it's going to force devs to have to support that with their base line spec, so even though Sony will claim they don't mandate it, devs will essentially be forced to support it because no one can afford not to. 

Not that devs even care by that point as most of them cannot afford another generational leap in visuals anyway.

You're just going to have a "cross-gen" period for basically the entire generation next time out. Generational leaps are going to turn into really underwhelming things where most games are going to be cross-gen even late into a console's generation.

This is also even happening in the high end PC market which is cratering after the crypto and COVID lockdown booms of the first half of this decade, now people are tuning out on high end hardware. Nvidia from the sounds of it are being forced to price cut the 50 series because no one's buying them ... not that they even care since PC GPUs are a tiny part of their overall business now (hello AI servers!). 

Ray tracing that actually works and FSR4 will make things much easier for developers. PS6 is 2-3 years away.

It would have been amazing if Nintendo surprised us and actually went with 5nm node they would have really future proofed this thing since it does have a huge advantage with DLSS till PS6 comes out.

Next-gen is basically already hog tied to a sub base PS5 spec because Sony isn't happy with non-growth in the Playstation market and need to get in on the hybrid train. 

If it's 3 years from now, that's even worse. Nintendo can easily make a Switch 2 Pro to counter at 4nm/5nm. 

At this rate, Sony's management will likely decide to make more games on XBox and Switch 2 as well, lol, that's going to be a whole other trend, virtually no games built for any singular hardware anymore and everything but Nintendo games available on every system after some exclusivity period. 

I think a lot of people are forgetting or ignoring the fact that we are still in the launch window. If Switch 2 runs Cyberpunk 2077 on par with PS4 Pro at launch and can handle current gen-only titles like Star Wars Outlaws just a few months later then just imagine what it’s doing in a few years.

Speaking of "out out touch"... please stop spreading that FUD.