Rumor has it MS may be leaving the hardware market

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On that second point, the new rumor is that the Switch 2 or whatever it's going to be has been delayed from late this year into early next year.  I've never believed any of the "Switch Pro" or "Switch 2" rumors because there are too many of them and they are too obviously always wrong, but that's what is being said.

Personally, I think the Switch is just fine... yeah, it can't do high-end visuals and if a new console releases I'll get it, but the kinds of games that I play on Switch look great and wouldn't be much improved by higher resolutions, I think.  It's not the '90s anymore, you don't need a new machine every couple of years.  Tech is at the point where platforms stay perfectly acceptable for much longer and I do think the Switch is at that level.  It will need a refresh eventually, but I've never understood the people getting so upset at Nintendo for years now because there isn't a more powerful version of the console out... like, seriously, most games run just fine on it!

Frankly I agree with this as a general rule.  There's rumors of a PS5 Pro coming along and all I can think is... why?  Why even bother with that?  Not only is it hard to tell the difference between the PS4 and PS5 versions, just about all the big hits on PS5 are also PS4 games anyway.  The key thing there is as far as gameplay is concerned, consoles can do anything a developer can imagine.  They are not held back by hardware unless they LET themselves be by obsessing over the latest, greatest, most details visuals.

But then there's the Switch, which has long suffered low frame rate issues from even modest (though impressive) ports.  There's good reason, I think, to go ahead and release new hardware in that particular case, bringing the console up to a portable PS4 perhaps.  Get the internal storage up to NVME speeds (which is possible using newer SD Express speed cards) and that's pretty much all we'll need for the foreseeable future.