The Switch is not another Wii U!

[Nem]

Wyrdness said:

Nem said:

No it doesn't. Do you really think they would put all their eggs on one home console when their last one flopped and while they have a portable market on the order of the 60 million?

I mean cmon... is that not a clear picture to you? Why do you think Nintendo would settle for a home console instead of a portable?

There might be merit to the sugestions that a portable switch SKU might be in the cards. Whatever it is, there will be a sucessor to the 3DS, you can be sure of that. And its not the home console, wich Nintendo says IS a home console. Why do you think they bother to make that distinction?

Btw the whole having the developers on one building just meant using similar engines and tools. It never meant only having one system.

Their eggs aren't all in one basket, they have mobile as well along side Switch, one of the reasons Xbox and PS fair a lot better is because both MS and Sony focus only on one platform. This is even more evident when Sony could cope in supporting two platforms so left PSVita to its fate, if alarge company like Sony struggle to support 2 platforms then obviously Nintendo would have problems as well even with them being more experienced as developing for portables now is equivalent to developing for a console.

Sooner or later you simply can't maintain that approach as costs and resources catch up to you, this is why they're using mobile for those low cost smaller titles, as they don't need to worry about hardware problems and can focus solely on one platform while having 2 separate sources for business.

See, that conclusion makes no sense. What would you think makes a bigger profit (and take software into account)? Selling 13 million home consoles or selling 60 million portables?

What made Nitendo money this last 4 years? Home consoles or portable consoles? It makes zero sense for them to focus all their efforts on a home console.