Heh, glad you mentioned Xbox - they’re a perfect example of consistent inconsistency! 🤣

Nintendo has been staunchly anti-emulation since even before the N64 launched, and it hasn’t hurt them yet.

I’m a proud Steam Deck owner, and I’ll be the first to admit that I predominantly use it to emulate my old games collection (PS1-3 & PSP), plus SNES out of sheer spite at Nintendo.

However, my relatively tech-savvy relatives (even those in their 20s), baulk at something as complex as SteamOS.

I think Nintendo’s safe for at least one more console generation, before the normies get on the portable-PC wagon.

Some analysts are morons. The reason the Wii U failed was because it wasn’t clear that it was a successor console, and not just a weird add-on.

People have been conditioned to understand numerical console increases for over two decades now thanks to the PlayStation.

Edit: As an aside, are there any console manufacturers besides Sony who have had sequential model numbers consistently? I’ve been mulling this under the last couple of hours and nothing comes to mind!

Nah, probably just some homeless guy on a bike with a blowtorch…