Again your analysis is too basic, childish and frankly immature.  FF Remake launched long after the ps5 version and hyped died down.  It also was priced at $70, which is $10 more than most steam games.  And it was a bad port, stuttering in particular.  

Quality of port does matter.  Look at Horizon or GoW versus TLoU2.  

If your ability to properly discuss situations doesn't improve quickly, I'll have to cease our interactions.  It is getting old so very quickly and you lack any actual value in specifics.  

The “official” discourse is that Square is an exclusive company, its latest games do not sell well and the solution is to stop releasing exclusives.

I don't agree that that is true. In numbers: In recent years Square has published about 7 exclusive games on play5, another 7 exclusive on switch and almost 80 multiplatform.

Square is not a company interested in making exclusive games. And they don't do them unless the money that Sony pays them in advance compensates them or the promotion that Nintendo gives them compensates them. Sony no longer pays them as much as they used to.

But they have also realized that most people complete 3 or 4 games a year. Their new strategy is that they are going to stop releasing so many games to focus on making fewer but much better made games.

If the change of direction really goes well for them and they really become a company that makes the quantity of games we need and with the quality we need, then they no longer need Nintendo to promote anything to them. Because their games are going to sell themselves.

 To me switch was much closer to 360/ps3 then ps4. so we'll agree to diagree.

PC market has it downsides too notably a lot of people don't like paying full price for anything outside of a few IP. A lot of PC sales have to come in the discounted range, Square-Enix doesn't like that and didn't like giving Steam a 30% cut of their software on top of that. 

$70 is going to be the norm for many games going forward, so PC gamers are just going to have to get used to that. $80 is probably coming at some point too. 

The 3DS is officially eighth generation. The switch is officially the successor to the 3DS. And it's also 100 times more powerful than the 3DS. And when the cycle of the switch and the play5/xbs is over, all the analysts will say that the switch cornered the play5/xbs in the market, but not the play4/xbo. Because the switch is the competition of play5/xbs.

Switch and especially Steam is huge reason why those 2 will sell lower combined this gen.

No doubt.  Especially with things like the Deck, Ally and Go.  Steam is going to start providing console direct competition.  Steam is growing like wildfire.  I did a brief search, so I haven't confirmed the numbers but at a glance active users a month increased 23,000,000 last year...  that is close to half the ps5 install base.

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And realistically how is the Deck or Ally different than a console?  It is pretty plug and play, simple and streamlined.  PC gaming isn't just "high end" and "custom" builds.  Clearly it is moving into the console arena.  

And downplaying Steam and direct impact to financials is silly.  Quick math on Horizon Zero Dawn, 3.3 million sold, $150 million the bank....  people are worried about 300 million dollar budget, steam offsets that quickly.  

Soundwave, you need to chill.
I agree some a lot of your points, but you really don't need to be so rude and antagonistic.
This is supposed to be a fun hobby, not something to hassle people over.

Regarding Switch vs PS4 in terms of power, it's complicated.

In terms of raw horsepower, on paper, Switch sits closer to PS3/360 than PS4/XBO. However, horsepower alone doesn't tell the whole story, as the Switch has access to technology 10 years more modern than PS3/360, so it is massively more efficient.

It's like if you have a plane and a bus that have the same horsepower, but the bus can get stuck in traffic while the plane just flies straight to its destination.

This enables Switch to close the gap with PS4 enough that it can run the same games, just at lower settings. It also helps that the Switch has 3.2Gb of RAM available to games, which is closer to the 5GB or so of PS4/XBO than the less than 500MB PS3 and 360 have.

Of course, being a portable machine brings with it certain limitations as well; particularly memory bandwidth, which is the Switch's weakest link, so you have this halfway house of 7th gen horsepower and bandwidth with 8th gen GPU features and RAM capacity.

For me the Switch is way, way, way more ps3 like than ps4.  I'm always surprised people think the switch runs with the ps4.  The ps4 produced GoW, Horizon, ghost, etc....  all well beyond what the switch can do.  The switch is a ps3.

Don't get me wrong breath is my all time favorite game.  But if that launched on the ps4 I would be disappointed in graphics and performance.  If it launched on the ps3, yeah I would be happy.