The Switch is not another Wii U!

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bonzobanana said:

bdbdbd said:

Out of the four DS's I (and my kids) had, the number of broken hinges is four. One hinge per console. 2DS is much more durable device, so was GBA and so was GB. The thing with the DS is, that it was targeted for more mature audience than GBA, PSP or 3DS. The clamshell is good design for portability, but bad for kids who treat devices roughly with little respect or care.

Problem with the handheld market is, that it's moved away from games people wanted to buy. 

Never had that problem with hinges but seems like a clear issue there. Did scratch up my GBA screen quite badly by not being careful. 2DS is clearly a device where portability took a bad seat with its larger format. Ok for bags and backpacks but not pockets. GB was brilliantly well made but not a touch screen so could be made stronger more easily.

Mobile gaming has never been bigger and more popular but Nintendo have been outpriced by IOS and Android and I'm not sure there is even a market for a device which provides more intense ambitious games in a portable format. For a £60 switch cartridge you can practically have a huge library of decent android paid for games plus a ton more of great free games. It's hard to compete with that.

But the problem in the mobile games market is bad games. Because of the free games it's hard to compete against, the microtransaction model is taken to an extreme where the model is breaking the games. Besides, any freemium game there is, is going to quickly cost you way more than any of the industry AAA games bought day 1.

It is the PS4/X1 model that's actually on the line of tablets and smarthones.