Pemalite said:
curl-6 said:
Competitive power and portability are mutually exclusive though.
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Not really.
Nintendo could have given us more power rather easily as I elaborated prior.
curl-6 said:
If instead of the Switch Nintendo had made a system that was basically a Nintendo branded PS4/Xbox One, people wouldn't buy it because they are already invested in ecosystems that offer that kind of experience. To eek out a decent share of the market, Nintendo have to offer something different enough that a PS4 doesn't render it superfluous.
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I am not asking for Nintendo to make a Playstation 4/Xbox One clone. I wouldn't want them to do that and nor have I suggested such a thing, they do their best when they are being different.
But that doesn't mean they cannot push power either, they aren't mutually exclusive.
The Wii would have still been possible if it had hardware that was competitive with the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, hell for all we know it might have actually given the console longer legs.
The Wii U would have still been possible if it had hardware that would have been competitive with the Xbox One and Playstation 4 and it might have given Nintendo more sales.
The Switch would still have been possible if it had hardware that was a step up from what it has currently, placing it closer to the Xbox one... Having the Dock actually augment the device could have been another approach.
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What I mean is, even with a Pascal Tegra X2 Switch still would not have been as powerful as PS4/Xbone. So portability, the core concept of the system, rules out being on par with the competition power wise.
They could have made Wii/Wii U/Switch stronger, (though I still reckon it would've been an unwise risk to make costlier PS3/360-tier Wii) what I'm saying is that it makes sense that they didn't, as their only successful consoles since the SNES have opted for low end parts, while their attemps to be power competitive ended in failure. Experience has taught them that trying to fight Playstation head on always fails, while sidestepping the competition with less powerful alternative concepts usually succeeds.
