I know Microsoft wants you to re-register Windows if you "significantly change" components in your PC. That is just stupid to me but whatever, they are the #1 operating system at the moment and if you game, there are not many options on a computer.

I remember those days of Lobotomy on Saturn. For the life of me I do not know why Sega never bought the company made them first party only. I remember picking up all three games at Electronics Boutique back in the day. I never really got into them but they were the closest I could get at the time. My computer around that time was a Color Computer II I used to write chapbooks and short story collections I sold at local gas stations. I did not get a proper computer that could play modern games till around 2000 or 2001 and even then it was "new" three years prior.

Have you checked out the NVIDIA Shield brand? I have a Shield TV and love it. The Shield Tablet and portable are very similar in tech under the hood to the Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately, neither have the same library of games as the Switch does, particularly the first party Nintendo games.

NVIDIA did go out and get some exclusives though - most of the big name games on PC are on Shield and apparently are just as good looking, if not better, than the PC version. Obviously that is in comparison to hardware that was available at the time. Nowadays, I am sure PC's can blow the Shield brand out of the water with those same games (but the price to do it is much higher too).

I will probably end up getting a Switch sooner than later. There are a lot of games, particularly indie, that are only on Switch or Steam - no PlayStation or Xbox release (and no Android one either). While I have a computer that will play them just fine, there is something to say about the portability of the Switch itself, like you said.

I personally like locked down hardware like the Switch. Developers are coming into their groove with that hardware before it was released. That leaves them to push the hardware even farther than thought.