And then the #UX is way worse in spite of decades of #innovation, #feedback and #improvements available to #developers, #publishers and #PlatformHolders...

I've yet to see a compelling reason to pick up an #8thGenConsole much less a #9thGenConsole as the pricing for #Consoles and #Games shoots up but there are fewer and fewer games worth the effort...

• Cuz even if we ignore the #UsedMarket out of fairness, there's not really anything that worth spending €500+ / $500+ on a console with controller and a game when the same game can be subjectively experienced better on a #PC that one is kinda forced to own anyway to a degree because our #online world necessitates us to do things like #eMail and most people won't stop #OnlineShopping, #OnlineBanking and all the other things even if they could feasibly choose to do so to begin with.

The most "successful #9thGenConsole" is the #SteamDeck, because #Nintendo's #Switch2 is merely a "minor upgrade" compared to the #NintendoSwitch, to the point that I think it should've been called "Nintendo Switch Pro" instead of #NintendoSwitch2, tho some people would call the #WiiU an
#8thGenConsole when in fact it's just an overclocked #Wii with #BD-ROM drive and #Touchscreen #Controller, which in and of itself was just a #GameCube with an overclocked yet smaller size CPU and more RAM.

• But I'm getting ahead of myself...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_generation_of_video_game_consoles