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>the "high end gaming console market"
That market does exist. The "entire high end gaming console" exists for shit like Call of Duty, Gears, Halo, GTA, etc. That entire market has been consolidated to Sony because Xbox waved the white flag. On the other hand, Nintendo has Mario, Pokemon and Zelda. The top two normie franchises are GTA and Pokemon. Normies are victims to FOMO culture. They're not going to miss out on Pokemon Gen 10 and GTA 6 which is why they'll buy both. Nintendo isn't competing for the living room, and Sony isn't competing for portable play. If Nintendo makes a home-only Switch with higher specs, it'll be niche because normies have been conditioned with associating Nintendo with the gameboy and portable play. If Sony makes a portable PS6, it'll be extremely niche and overshadowed by the home-version of the PS6.
/v/ has a skewed perception of reality since the vast majority of people here play on PC. It is a better platform than both Nintendo and Playstation, but those two aren't even close to dying just because /v/ hates them. In fact, they're too big to fail and can co-exist in the market. Believe it or not, Snoys on Xitter and YT rarely talk shit about Nintendo and are perfectly capable of enjoying Switch games. Tendies on social media are open to Playstation. That one guy who got death threats for owning two Switch 2's also had PS4/5 games on that image FFS. Only fringe cases like Harman Smith or that one nigga with the Cyclops PFP on Xitter only play on one system.
In fact, a lot of the console war channels on Youtube are made by supposed PC gamers like Alex and Fritanga.