The Switch is not another Wii U!

[zorg1000]

Nem said:

zorg1000 said:

do you honestly believe Nintendo can support a console that is likely 2-3 times as powerful as Wii U alongside a traditional handheld that is somewhere in the ballpark of Vita level hardware?

That goes against everything they have been doing the last few years with merging and restructuring their divisions.

What would be the benefit of that anyway?

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.

You are gobbling up PR talk, they are positioning it as a home console now because 3DS is still doing alright and has some key software releasing. Its no different than Nintendo saying DS wasnt a replacement to GBA, which was true for about 1-1.5 years as GBA was still selling and getting games. By Fall of 2018 when 3DS sales have slowed and Switch recieves a smaller, cheaper portable only model all of a sudden Switch will be the successor to 3DS & Wii U just like DS was all of a sudden a GBA successor once DS started to take off in Spring 2006 and GBA sales/software declined.

The didnt just merge their software divisions, they also merged their hardware devisions and spoke about how creating games for two distinct platforms is becoming too difficult and that they plan on having a unified platform. Thats what i mean by having seperate Wii U and 3DS successors going against everything they have been doing these last couple years.

You didnt answer my question, how does Nintendo manage to support Switch & 4DS when they struggled to support Wii U & 3DS?