The Switch is not another Wii U!

[zorg1000]

A_C_E said:

zorg1000 said:

No, they have made it clear that they can not effectively support two seperate hardware lines at once and this problem will continue to grow as their devices become more powerful and require larger development teams, times and costs.

Back in 2014, Iwata talked about this and said that going forward they want to create a single, unified platform similar to iOS or Android, where all or most software can be shared across various form factors.

Also, in the last few years they merged the handheld & consoles divisions of software & hardware so there is no longer a handheld software team and a console software team, there is now simply just a software team. Same for the hardware side of things.

I strongly believe going forward Switch will be the only hardware line they support and they will offer different form factors.

Nintendo Switch-tablet style, hybrid device

Switch Lite-smaller, cheaper, portable only device

Switch TV-cheaper, microconsole, TV only device

That's just an example of what we could see and would essentially be the equivelent of Nintendo's versions of iPad, iPod & Apple TV.

@Bold - Couldn't this mean that Nintendo could create a dedicated handheld that could be compatible with the Switch's software and vice-versa?

I can see where you're coming from and wouldn't rule it out. If Nintendo thinks that's the best model to with then so be it, but I don't think Nintendo is ruling out a dedicated handheld just yet.

how is that any different from what i said?