m_csquare said:
Soundwave said:
Switch just has to get 3DS (and maybe whatever is left of the Vita and Wii U userbases) owners to buy it. It doesn't need to, nor is going to compete with the PS4/XB1.
This is plainly and obviously not the system Nintendo would have made if they were interested in competing against Sony/MS.
In fact I'm beginning to think the *main* reason the Western branches are pushing it as a "console" moniker is not because they give two shits about PS4/XB1 but because they are more worried about people looking at it and saying "oh its a tablet, I already have a tablet". They are more scared of tablets IMO, that's also why they are rushing it to market in the awkward month of March, because they are scared tablet makers will look at this idea and say "hey ... why don't we throw some cheap plastic wing controllers right in the box of our tablet and call it a console too?" ... no doubt Nintendo knows that's probably coming and wants to get at least some mileage out of the idea before the 100 other tablet makers inevitably start ripping it off.
They are worried about tablet makers like Samsung, that makes like 20 different tablet models a year, they are more worried about them making a Samsung Galaxy Switch knock-off, not so much Sony/MS. Nintendo knows they lost that battle a long time ago.
"Console warriors" on the internet only see things through the limited prism of Sony Vs. Nintendo Vs. Microsoft FOREVAR, things have changed a lot, Nintendo has other priorities.
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And releasing a weaker "console" in a market that has been running for 3years is suddenly a good idea?
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Switch is a "console" only in marketing terms. It is not a competitor for the PS4/XB1, people need to just get over that already. It's a mobile chipset in a mobile form factor with a mobile battery and a mobile display that just has a $5 plastic dock for HDMI pass through thrown in.
There is no place left for Nintendo in that market, even MS is having trouble getting scraps from Sony's table, Nintendo would be left with just bread crumbs.
Nintendo's window to compete in that market has long since closed, and they can blame themselves for it, but there's nothing unless you have a time machine that can go back to 1995 or 2000 handy that can be done about that now.
Sony/MS even took a giant dump on the whole "Nintendo should one-up Sony/MS with a more powerful console!!! Yeaaaa DUDE!" line of logic, because Scorpio and PS4 Pro kinda corner the market on what you can put into a $300-$400 box, had Nintendo made the "generic PS4 competitor console" and chosen a "sensible" chip like a 2.5 TFLOP Polaris like many people thought was a great idea, they'd be totally fucked right now by Sony/MS releasing mid-gen refreshes.
