PS is what it always has been, a third party machine, that has always been a successful strategy for Sony. Its a console people buy to play FIFA, GTA and CoD. Previously Xbox got some of that audience as well but now that audience is more and more PS dominated. AAA third party developers have always skipped Nintendo consoles, even when Nintendo consoles like the Gamecube was more powerful than the PS. But i don't think traditional AAA games is the future for the industry, its Fortnite and other dominating GAAS games, so as long as those games keep coming to Switch 2 then Nintendo is mostly set when it comes to third party games, traditional AAA is dying with even Sony now mostly making GAAS.

This thread probably didn't need to continue after the second post... But I digress.

We need to remove ourselves from the idea that we all have the same tastes in games... We don't.

The WiiU was a primary console for many gamers... Because all they wanted to play was Mario Kart 8, one of the best selling games of all time... And there is literally nothing wrong with that.
The WiiU's best games ironically turned out the be some of the best games on Switch.

I know people who haven't progressed past the Super Nintendo or Nintendo 64 generations because those platforms have the games they love and play.

The number of sales or number of games that a system has is ultimately irrelevant on whether a system is a primary or secondary device in a home, it comes down to what you want to play, that's all.

No, if anything it's Sony's audience that is really starting to age. A lot of the Playstation audience is 40+ year olds, so are a lot of the people who buy high end GPUs.

Younger gamers are playing a lot on smartphones + Switch + low-end PCs and free to play titles. This is where the industry is headed and where it already is in a lot of ways. As a result in that range, Switch certainly can be the defacto platform for a lot of people. 

The old paradigms are changing, some people are just blind to it. 

This will potentially compound on Switch 2 as it gets better and better 3rd party support (hello there Call of Duty and Madden NFL and Final Fantasy and Halo and Forza series'). 

Playstation audience is gonna become really old IMO in the next gen, bunch of 40 and 50 year olds, they're gonna be the new "my dad listens to classic rock on radio" people, lol. Makes sense too, Sony hasn't grown their main demos much at all, if you were 20 years old in 2000 when the PS2 (the target PS2 demo) launched, you'd be 44 or 45 years old today. Checks out. 

For example, PS fans in Japan were polled by Famitsu in Japan, almost all of the top PS games they ranked were stuff like Xenogears, FF7 and other PS1 games, showing hold old the PS audience is in some countries already.

It is my third system in play-time, behind my phone and my PS5. But, if I only ever can play games on one of the systems I currently use, I would still pick my switch. It is just such a well rounded system for many different type of gaming experiences. For me it is not best at anything really, but it is a close second in everything.

Switch's reputation as a great "second platform" doesn't make it a poor "first platform".

It's just that if you already have a PC or a PS5 or Xbox, then Switch is by far the better "second platform" than any other, because those three share 95%~ of the great games that are missing on Switch, and don't have a compelling or large enough library of true exclusives like Switch does.

Seems like you can cut PS and Xbox out of the picture and just have a PC and Nintendo console, given that everything on PS and Xbox will be on PC while no Nintendo game on Switch 2 will be on PC.

Primary for me

Or... you can cut PC and Xbox and the average console gamer would hardly lose anything of significance coz all of Microsoft games that used to go on PC will now be coming to Playstation which is more affordable and will have a few huge exclusives and timed exclusives.

If you own any of the 3 systems, there is little reason to own the other two (for gaming), and plenty of reasons to own a Switch.

It depends. I've always said that if you use the Switch primarily or exclusively as a home console (Almost always docked, Pro Controller, etc.) Then it's basically the same as every other Nintendo home console after the SNES. It's good for Nintendo first party games and little to nothing else, as anything that isn't exclusive to it is almost certain to have a superior version on another platfrom, assuming the game even has a Switch version at all.

But if you use the Switch primarily as a portable system (playing primarily undocked in handheld mode, or tabletop) than its a perfect complimentary system to something like a PS5, Xbox, or PC, or even as an only system if you travel a lot. The Switch becomes a way better platform if you view it through the lens of something like a GBA or DS and not a GameCube or Wii U. And if you own a Switch Lite, then it's especially hard to see it as anything other than a portable system.