People in this sub just flat out do not understand that no one outside of hardware enthusiasts give a flying fuck about paper specs. Most people care about what experience a product can give them for the money and that's it. And honestly unless you are comparing individual components, like one CPU against another, it makes way more sense to look at products holistically instead of obsessing about numbers on a spec sheet.

If you spent $300 on a Switch in 2017 then you ended up getting an enormous library of games to choose from and are still getting new titles. Switch was built on old underpowered hardware but that $300 was one of the best values you could ever get in gaming. The investment paid off.

The same thing will apply to Switch 2 at $450. It's built on old hardware with an SoC on an old node that everyone here was complaining about but over the lifetime of the device you are going to get loads of games that you cannot get anywhere else in a tried and true form factor from a company that is guaranteed to provide years and years of strong software support. Unsurprisingly, most actual gamers care about games first and everything else afterwards. Owning a Switch was a great experience and owning a Switch 2 will be as well.

The prevailing attitude on this sub is like if you went to buy a new car and looked up the horsepower/torque figures and quarter mile times and chose based off of that alone, ignoring the interior or ride comfort or road noise or infotainment or stereo or any of the other things that cannot be quantified but are critical ingredients that culminate in the experience of owning and operating that car. Then you're sitting at a stoplight next to a person who bought the "wrong" car and judging them because they got less HP for more money and the only way anyone would do that is if they were an idiot or a sheep or a rube. They are smiling and unbothered and you are thinking about how epically you are going to roast them on the internet when you get home.