Soundwave on 20 December 2016
| SamLeheny said: The more I hear about the NX, the more it feels less like a home console with some handheld functionality built in, and more like a handheld with some home console functionality built in. And handhelds is where Nintendo does well. This could be their way of subtly stepping out of the home console market. I just wonder if their handheld days are limited too. These days people expect or all portable electronic gear in one device, which for most people will be their phone. But then again, the Switch seems looking to do what phone's can't yet, which is high graphical fidelity (relatively speaking) with a more traditional control scheme. In that regard, I wish them luck, though I'm personally not interested, and I don't take all the publishers who've sworn their support all that encouraging given that they all said the same thing last time and look how much the Wii U actually got in the end... |
That's basically really what this is, Nintendo is just putting a happy face on it.
It's effectively Nintendo exiting the traditional console market (that they created), but having a TV dock lets them keep one toe in the water at least.
What market handhelds have in the future will be interesting to say, to be fair though the 3DS is still selling pretty OK. 555k in November is not that bad for November, it was about half of the PS4 or XBox One. It's certainly not the DS heyday or even the GBA days, but it's not like 20-30 million worldwide only either.
