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curl-6 on 08 October 2017
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Pemalite said:
curl-6 said:

Nintendo are no longer making dedicated home consoles; there isn't room on the market for three similar consoles to do well

I disagree. The 7th Gen showed that three consoles can compete in the dedicated home console market with the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii doing amazingly well.

curl-6 said:

Plus tablets don't have efficient to-the-metal APIs like Switch does so in terms of real world game performance they fall short.

Actually... That statement is false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_(API)

- I think that only worked cos Wii was nothing like PS3/360 though; never have three similar consoles all done well.

- I can't see a general purpose tablet API giving as good optimization as a device designed specifically for gaming and pretty much gaming alone. Switch has its own custom API, "NVN" built specifically for the hardware. Tablets don't have this luxury as even Metal has to work on numerous different hardwares and can't be tailored specifically to any single one.