Rethinking The Switch Audience And Where Nintendo Can Gain Users.

[Conina]

Mar1217 said:

Conina said:

I agree. Gaming is competing with a lot of other "entertainment tasks" like watching TV episodes, watching funny YouTube videos, web browsing or forum discussions.

If you do some of these other tasks "on the go" instead of doing them in your precious free time at home, you free some time at home for gaming with less compromises than on a mobile device.

Or all these people who are watching Esports on TV/Web and never even played the freaking game.

You don't understand. The amount of active (gaming) and passive entertainment time stays the same. But you shift some passive activities to your mobile time and free time at home for your active activities. There are much less compromises your have to make on a portable device (compared to much more powerful devices at home) for these passive entertainment options than for gaming.

I personally am a fan of mobile gaming and can understand that compromises are necessary on portable devices due to battery life and size/weight of the device. But you won't get many new people into handheld gaming with the $300 Switch that weren't already enjoying handheld gaming before that on other handhelds.