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Soundwave on 04 January 2017
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sabastian said:
Rogerioandrade said:

Rumors... rumors... rumors....
People should really wait and see what The Switch is all about before jumping on conclusions. So far we have nothing but rumors rumors rumors..

I´d say that The Switch is not a direct competitor to both PS4/XboxOne. It´s more likely to fill the shoes of the 3ds: to work as a secondary console for most gamers.

If installments of such huge franchises like Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Mario, Fire Emblem. Metroid, Yokai Watch, Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, SMT etc. etc. come to this device, as they came to the 3ds, it won´t be nearly a disaster.

Remember: the Switch is meant to unite all Nintendo productions in a single device. So we won´t have a WiiU+3ds situation with it.

Most Nintendo gamers have been saying this since the Wii was released.

 

Look, if you release a home console, its automatically a direct competitor to the other home consoles currently on the market. Period. 

Except the Wii was still really a stationary home console. It was just an underpowered one, but even that had some logic to it because most people at the time of the Wii's launch did not have HDTV sets. 

It would be more like if instead of releasing the Wii, Nintendo just released the DS with a plastic dock that let it output to TV and play DS games on the TV. 

Switch has a mobile CPU, a mobile CPU, mobile RAM, a mobile screen, a kickstand for mobile use, a battery for mobile use, and is being made by a company that has 85% of its userbase on portable game systems.

This isn't in competetion with the XBox One/PS4, not much more than the 3DS or Vita/Vita TV was.