Something can be 'technically superior' but still not the 'best' solution, because 'solution' includes a lot of factors beyond 'technological superiority.'
First to market is a crapshoot; sometimes it makes you the baseline, and sometimes it just gives your competition free market research. This is where Apple lived for a long time; let Microsoft or whoever do something, then do it better.
Well, in this case, a distinct lack of needing to compile shaders.
And consoles have been 'PCs in fancy cases' since the OG Xbox. Arguably the Dreamcast.
Frau Blucher!
Buy the S2 now, while they're still working through their existing backlog of stock.
I bought a PS5Pro when the word 'tariffs' was first dropped, and I'm glad I did.
Personally, I find the concept of the Cybermen more chilling than the Daleks. At least the Daleks will kill you. The Cybermen will Cyber-convert you, condemning you to a life of servitude with no free will. Unlike Borgification, there's no reversing the process.
Sure, you still had to buy the license, dev kits, and so on. But at the time, Nintendo was taking something like a third of the cost per unit, right off the top, if I remember correctly.
I'm going to go reread Game Over.
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann