Rab said:
Nintendo have the largest install base playing their systems |
Pls elaborate. I'm really interested to hear more on this notion of yours.
| Pyro as Bill said: They can't make a hybrid. tooIt's late to hybrid the PS4 and the PS5/Scorpio is too powerful. They would have to make their own dedicated handheld and that brings with it it's own problems. Meanwhile if Nintendo's next portable fails, a scenario that has never happened, they still have the option to move upstream with less demanding, mass market IPs for VR. |
And thats where this whole theory of yours falls flat on its head. They couldn't even make a hybrid PS4/XB1 if they wanted to Those consoles are already too powerful to fit into a handheld from factor as is. What kinda batter would power them? how big would they be? How would they fit that massive fan and heat sink into it?
This is why I keep saying what I've said. The switch is a handheld console. it was designed for that. Eveeything about how it was designed ensures it can work in a handheld capacity. It's not a home console. It just has a dock. There is a world of difference when designing a home and a mobile console. The differences are so much that it's just not possible to design something that does both perfectly.
By the time 3nm fabrication comes along, which could very well be in another 8-10yrs, you will have PS4 level hardware that can fit into a handheld form factor. but by then, the home consoles would have significantly more powerful chips than that that fits into a console form factor. Complete with massive Dan's and heat sinks and massive PCUs..... it's a cycle.
the two markets aremt the same. no matter how much you want them to be.
