Is Switch's processing power important to you?

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curl-6 said:

Soundwave said:

It's actually curious to think what level of support the Wii could've gotten had it been 100 GFLOPS even. I think virtually every third party would've supported it with their major games. 

Hindsight is 20/20 I guess; given the enormous gamble they took with the Wiimote, I can understand their decision at the time to stick with cheap, proven chips.

The GameCube was a $99 piece of tech though, probably even less than that, they were selling it at $99 for two+ years by the time Wii launched. 

Even the DS was a giant sized upgrade on the GBA. Imagine they just reused the GBA chip (or GBA x2, one for each screen) ... the types of games on the DS would've been dramatically limited to 2D sprite games and things like Dragon Quest IX likely would not have been possible. 

Had they chosen a cheap but more modern chip for Wii they could've received some really impressive third party support given the sales that were waiting for them.