Nintendo

That's the thing. I can hold off buying the Switch now, because there's nothing that's a must play being released this year. But when the next Zelda or two come out... Well. It's not like other franchises that might release as a console exclusive and make it to PC/whatever a year or two later. Nintendo games stay on Nintendo.

I am not sure how true this is any more, since I read it probably 10 years ago, but I remember reading an article that showed that the majority of video game consumers tend to just buy 1 or 2 games for a system, period, and only play those games. Like COD and Madden fans tend to only play COD and Madden, respectively. I definitely have seen that to be true with Nintendo fans. Most people I know IRL that "play games," just have a Nintendo system (not even necessarily a Switch) with 2-3 games unless they have kids.

People keep thinking there's some kind of war when nintendo is its own thing. I'd would never buy or touch any of the alternatives since they don't matter for me a filthy casual. But I'm also not interested in the n2 for now, I'll consider it in 4 or 5 years.

My friend recently was asking if he should get the switch 2 or what other portable console would be better as an adult. I told him to get the steam deck and he was so baffled by what it was, then he almost got some other random thing he found at Walmart because he figured it was the same thing. I guess I spend more time on the internet that I didn't even realize people don't even know what steam is