80+ Million Switches Need to be Sold in 5 Years or it's a Failure

[potato_hamster]

GoOnKid said:

potato_hamster said:

The actual fact is that iOS is not one platform in the same way that a video game console is one platform. The term "platform" in the technology space has many different meanings, and you're assuming it means the same thing every single time it is mentioned. It's like calling "PC" a platform (it is) when we all know that Forza Horizon 3 isn't going to run on your "PC" if it only runs OS X or Linux or Windows 3.1 for example. Sure, it is far easier to port a PC game from Windows to OS X than it is to say, port a PS3 game to OS X, but that does not mean that Windows and OS X are actually the same platform from a game development perspective even if they're running almost on identical hardware.

The fact of the matter, is that there wasn't actually much stopping Nintendo from making a "Wii U portable" or a "Wii U Pro" or a "Wii U 2" or a "Wii U VR add on".... but they never, and there really isn't much reason to expect Nintendo will change their hardware deployment philosophy this time around either.

All we have here is a handful of fans who want so very dearly for Nintendo to just make one device that they have a huge confirmation bias that prevents them from interpreting what Nintendo says in any other way than the way they want it to mean.

Your whole point (or one of them) is that Nintendo being stupid in the past means that Nintendo will be stupid in the future, right?

Ohh no, they're not being stupid. They're trying to make as much money as possible. When you look at from a perspective of "trying to extract as much money from their fans as possible" a lot of their decisions that make people scratch their heads become very easy to understand.