| Veknoid_Outcast said: Better for Nintendo to remain self-sufficient than to adopt a design philosophy that would throw it into a self-destructive arms race with Sony and Microsoft, which have the deep pockets to subsidize expensive hardware and, frankly, need third parties much more desperately than Nintendo. |
Except Sony and Nintendo aren't subsidizing hardware at all, Sony will not even include BDXL/UHD drive over marginal $ difference.
The era of subsidized hardware has ended, but Nintendo never tried to take advantage of that to up it's game.
Reality is Nintendo is not just deciding to not compete directly, they don't even try to push what is capable WITHIN THEIR NICHE.
14nm is NOT cutting edge when 10nm is being introduced, it boosts performance 30% for same juice, but Nintendo can't manage it.
Nintendo can't try to leverage NVIDIA's latest products IN SAME TABLET NICHE, it relies on last-gen tablet tech on last-gen fab tech.
To be clear, modern tech there would not magically put it in par with Sony/MS, but would allow it to come closer to half way.
That might even allow some more porting from those platforms, even if with reduced performance.
To be clear, whatever Switch achieves in docked mode is irrelevant because games also need to run in portable mode,
thus that performance delta is the relevant one when assessing porting viability, docked mode is just frosting on top of that.
