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spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

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.

This is a good point , and I honestly think that the Switch probably will get decent ports if they run at 720p on tvs. Hell some might even be 1080 depending on how well the software aspect of the system makes it easy to develop for. 

I just wish we were getting a slightly better deal for the money, although I guess if you want that you should just build a PC yourself but whatever.