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One unique intersection here is this:
Dev (say a studio under Square Enix) wants to make game for PS5, dev also does not want to leave 150 million potential buyers ob Nintendo Switch on the table. If dev is already building their game with the Switch in mind, might as well make a PS4 (~100 million consoles sold, probably still many active users) version as well. Hence why so many games have a platform spread that's like "PC, PS5, PS4, Switch".
Exclusives, or even just leaving out lastgen consoles, has never made financial sense but now there's less incentive than ever. See Microsoft had to deliberately cut off its devs from making Xbox One games.
Would be cool if we enter the eternal PC/PS4/Switch generation and never have to buy new hardware again. We've reached peak gaming.
To be real I expected the 8th gen to be long dead by now, but stuff continues to drop on old platforms. I think the Switch 2 will still be low-performance enough that PS4 ports will be viable.
The steam deck specs & form factor is honestly peak. I don't think anything will top it within the next decade, unless VR really takes off