PC Master Race

SNES was arguably better than Genesis system

The SNES and Genesis were comparable. You could argue one or the other, but it was a tighter race than the Playstation 3 curb-stomping the Wii.

N64 has much more raw power than my favorite system the PS1

Playstation had CD-ROM, and that's all that needs to be said about that battle.

GameCube was stronger than PS2 and Dreamcast

Comparing the GameCube with the PS2, it had less VRAM, less RAM, a faster CPU, roughly equiv video processor. I would say they were about equal, and that's with GameCube coming out two years later.

The PS2 was also the strongest console to ever fight in any sort of console war, with its ridiculously large library of games. PS2 punished Sega so hard they permanent removed themselves out of the race, and Nintendo had to completely change strategies to fill a different niche and audience, which worked with the Wii. However, that came with the dumbing down of hardware that everybody is talking about. They have been pushing shitty outdated hardware ever since.

I stand corrected, I guess I was comparing the gamecube to an xbox, but yeah agreed, I just bought a second steam deck OLED when I already had the LCD model because honestly I think the economy is going to crash hard and it is going to be a long road to affordably getting a gaming device in the US for the foreseeable future.

It is a shitty situation to be in, but I didn't even hesitate because the current calculus is a no brainer. I have Blender on my Steam Deck and I am using it to create cool visualizations of Lidar data for Geology, Nintendo would respond to a statement like this with something like "yeah, that is cool but it sounds very niche, people don't need that" and my response is "Fuck you, you haven't even let people try".

I heard of another Geologist bringing in their steam deck to present a talk off of it instead of a laptop too, these kinds of interesting unusual use cases aren't trivial and hyper individual, they represent people developing the future of handheld computers in real time, and Nintendo has completely lost the plot here. The Steam Deck really isn't a gaming device, it is a gaming device that Trojan Horses you into having an awesome handheld linux computer that can also play your favorite games.

If Nintendo thinks they can compete with the Steam Deck by just selling a better handheld gaming console, they are so fucked.... or at the very least they are walking away from what will actually be the next big growth area in computers (that people were SURE AI and VR would be).

Nintendo execs are likely sitting there being like "damn we are going to make so much money selling the best handheld gaming console and completely dominate the handheld gaming console market so we can charge $100 a game" while missing the MUCH LARGER profit opportunity of evolving their handheld console into a handheld computer.

Think about it, Nintendo is in the perfect position to evolve their Switch into more and more of a computer, and it would give them a MASSIVE new horizon of growth opportunities especially since countless kids grow up playing on Switches and already know how to use them inside out... it would help Nintendo protect itself from encroachment by other big tech, and do any number of other longterm things for Nintendo's growth and profit.

Instead the idiots want to gouge people for more money by squeezing ONLY the gaming potential out of the switch, it is pathetic and I wish legislation around the world didn't allow massive corporations to behave this foolishly in trying to close down their systems so they don't accidentally create the "wrong" kind of value or innovation.

Ah yes, console released over 30 years ago.

Yeah, I have a Switch too but it's not been turned on in maybe two years, getting a Steam Deck basically retired it

Honestly who cares about the power of hardware on a handheld, sadly this is something Ninendo used to understand better than anyone else.

Focus on making the games fun and the hardware capable enough, don't get lost in the hype of trying to out hardware competitors and pull in customers that way.

Well, they have clearly abandoned that strategy, but I think this was the worst possible situation to do this in because they are going to continue to get destabilized by the Steam Deck just being a Switch that doesn't try to obsessively control everything you can do on it. It is a waste of money to buy such a closed down device, even if it is more powerful than a Steam Deck.