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Soundwave on 02 June 2017
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Barkley said:
Soundwave said:

I think one of the things people are going to have to learn with Switch is it's not like any Nintendo hardware line before it.

It is the first Nintendo system made to function in the world of smartphones and tablets, which is a very, very different world for Nintendo. 

I agree, the hardware just lends itself to iterative design, and due to the nature of the tech it's built on rapid advancement is expected. You just can't continue using Tegra X1's for 5+ years, it won't happen.

Yeah and beyond that it exists in a completely different consumer landscape than what past Nintendo systems did. Kids today do not consume entertainment the same way they did even 10 years ago while Nintendo's own loyal fanbase has grown even older. Things have shifted radically. 

Switch is Nintendo shifting and changing to try and repostion themselves, just as the very design of the Switch itself breaks several "rules" of Nintendo hardware already, so too IMO will the evolution of the Switch ecosystem, and key there is the word ecosystem. I think Switch is an ecosystem, not simply just a game console, and no Nintendo hardware line has ever really made that leap. We've had model revisions before sure, but not a real ecosystem of differing hardware that can share software. 

That I think is going to be the big game changer for the Switch going forward, the days of a linear/kinda predictable NES to Super NES (five year break) to N64 etc. etc. etc. I think is going to radically alter with the Switch.