I realised when the Wii U came out that that's exactly what I wanted - console quality games off-tv/handheld, so I bought a Wii U, hoping for something like the Switch as it's successor, as it just seemed the logical next step. In the meantime, I bought my first ever portable when the New 3DS launched.
The Switch is pretty much everything I wanted 4 years ago, except for the lack of Wii U/3DS backwards compatibility.
I don't want to be tethered to a tv/monitor, and keyboard & mouse gaming is not relaxing/comfortable.
However, if a game is going super cheap on PC, like a Steam sale, CD Keys deal, or Humble Bundle, then I'll add it to my PC library, otherwise there's very few games I'd buy on PC - I very rarely go over £5 for a PC game (Witcher 3 GOTY and Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive being the only recent exceptions).
Likewise for PS4/XB1 - if a game is going really cheap then I might get it, but only because of the Switch tax. I'm much more likely to get round to playing it if it's on my Switch.
Games like Stardew Valley, Owlboy, Hollow Knight, are all games I've avoided getting elsewhere because I knew a Switch version was coming.
I only bought Rocket League on PC about a month or so before the Switch announcement. If I'd have known, I'd have waited.
Chess Ultra is a perfect example. I can't stress how right it feels playing that handheld and being able to take it anywhere; playing online via hotspot etc.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
I own a lot of old Nintendo product, PS2 and PS3 and a PC.
I prefer to buy my game on PC because I keep my games when I upgrade.
Nintendo lost me for a while because PS1 to PS2 allow me the same service.
Sony lost me because they did not do this for the PS3 and PS4.
The Wii got me back to Nintendo and the Wii U was to me a upgrade of the Wii.
If the Switch supported a united Estore then I would have seen it as a upgrade of the WiiU
But I does not and therefore is replacement and is a start from scratch.
So the company that in the future offers upgrade and not replacement consoles are the one that will get my money.
The only that offers that right now is PC and the Nintendo DS series.
And I not sure Nintendo will continue to do this, and PC/Steam is slowly going into the console marked.
No wonder that Nintendo is going mobile, but the tablets are also moving in from that front.
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