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Torillian on 31 October 2016
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Alkibiádēs said:
Torillian said:

So Nintendo is doing something new because, although other companies have made hybrids and have consoloidated their development teams, no company has consolidated the amount of development teams Ninty is into a hybrid.  Sure, if we get that specific then I suppose it's an innovation.  But so now let's go back to the OP, what in your mind could Sony or MS possibly copy about the Switch now that we've established that neither has a meaningful enough software development division beyond what is used for home console game development?  

What other companies have made a hybrid console before?

A hybrid console isn't just a handheld console that you can connect to your TV, it's a console where you can play ALL the games the hardware company is developping.

If you wanted to play all of Sony's games you still needed to buy both their handheld and home console. The same goes for Sega.

If the Switch proves succesful like the Wii was than yeah, Sony and MS will copy the concept. It's that simple, they'd be stupid not to if it was that succesful (and I'm not saying it will be that succesful by the way).

MS already has a console with all their content, and Sony does too as we just talked about.  So you're saying that if Nintendo's concept takes off MS and Sony will both completely change the design of their next consoles to make a weaker home console that has the ability to be used as a handheld for a few hours.  I'll have to disagree, I don't really think that would be capable of the type of games both companies like to gear their software development towards.  

 

Edit: thinking on it a bit I suppose this could just be the natural evolution of the home console as the graphical gain from more power becomes harder and harder to notice and NIntendo just reached their critical point of "now a handheld can make the kind of games we like to do on console" than Sony and MS did.  If that's the case you may end up right about the result if for the wrong reason.  



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