Bloomberg: Nintendo Switch Hybrid to End 'Two-Punch Strategy'

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Miyamotoo said:

Aeolus451 said:

I disagree. The kind of games they were focused on first party wise and not having 3rd party support were the main reasons why their home consoles didn't do that well most of the time. If what you're saying was the case, they should have just went with handhelds if they were gonna do "one pillar" because it did alot better in a pretty much uncontested market.  

Wii and DS didn't really had strong 3rd party support, 3DS also, now Switch doesn't have strong 3rd party support also and its doing great. If they still supporting two different platforms, bouth platforms wouldn't had enuf of Nintendo support, we saw exactly that with 3DS and Wii U, Nintendo wasn't able to support effectively two different platforms in same time, same could be said for Sony with Vita and PS4. That wasn't really case before HD games, but today its very hard to effectively support two different platforms in same time, thats why Switch is a hybrid and Nintendo with Switch basically making one unified platform.

Also now with one gaming platform, second platform where they will invest is mobile platform, but they also started investing in theme parks, merchandise, movies...

That's a myth, both consoles had very strong third party support. DS had Square and Enix supporting it strong, even releasing a mainline Dragon Quest, not to mention all the other Level 5 stuff, such as Professor Layton: which was one of the most popular and critically praised new franchises of the generation. Wii had the strongest efforts EA and Ubisoft ever put on a Nintendo console ever putting on lots of exclusives, and they made some of their multi platform Wii games better than the competition, unlike say the GameCube or Wii U which got no exclusives, only gimped versions of multi platform titles. Whether you like those companies or not, both of them helped the Wii with its success, even keeping it above the Wii U in software sales for most of its lifetime. While Wii didn't have the strongest Japanese support, and DS didn't have the strongest Western support, combined the two of them made for one of the most powerful lineups a company has ever had in the history of the industry; combined, they are easily Nintendo's top, totally killing what SNES and GB had in the early to mid 90s - DS had about 4-5X as many RPGs as SNES: and most of what was on SNES had been remade and improved upon for Wii or DS, and the rest got ported into the VC: not to mention all the new genres that SNES didn't even have, or did very half-assed (racing, FPS, 3D platformers, third person shooters, survival and horror, adventure titles, etc...). The only real clear better generation PS2, especially once PSP launched about mid-gen. The PSX being the only other clear rival.