I flew too close to the 1TF sun and my Switch wings melted.

[Frogger]

curl-6 said:

spemanig said:

No one is going to answer that they bought a PS4 because good marketing worked on them or that bad PR from the competition only gave them one console alternative. People thought the PS2 was the most powerful and the 360 was the most powerful. People still think the PS1 was the most powerful and that the GCN was the weakest. The mass market doesn't actually care. They care about what's most popular, and that's dictated by marketing and good PR.

All of those were powerful systems though. PR only goes so far, in the end the machine has to speak for itself.

Of course it does. The Wii spoke for itself. The weakest PS1+2 spoke for themselves. They weren't shitty machines that happened to do well. They were good machines that took advantage of good marketing and good PR to get where they were. They didn't need to be the most powerful machines to be desired.

Wii was what? 20x weaker than PS3 or something? Compared to Switch being allegedly 1/3 an XBO at the weakest? It just has to get the games. If it get's multiplats, power won't matter to the mass market. People buy Apple devices at a premium knowing that Microsoft and Android devices have better hardware for less money. Why? More popular, more accessible, more convenient. (maybe not so much the last bit now, but I digress)

Nintendo just has to nail those three things. Power won't be a factor. Not to the mass market.