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superchunk on 31 October 2017
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RolStoppable said:
superchunk said:
I miss so many threads now lol.

Switch will push Nintendo over this fiscal year and next.

2018 will see Nintendo demonstrate that Switch is now their primary / only hardware line as major "portable" first party titles are announced for Switch. Additionally, Switch will get those common 3rd party titles now that each company has had time to 1) enhance their tools for Switch 2) see Switch succeed in the market 3) plan for Switch support in their budgets.

Sometime in 2019 this will be come a conversation again when Sony is looking at PS5 and Nintendo is looking at a new updated Switch of some sort. (This goes back to my long-standing statement that Consoles have been moving to follow a mobile approach to new hardware.)

Really, superchunk? Haven't you been burned enough by your belief that operating systems will determine the winner of console generations?

You are almost on the same level as the people who thought that Nintendo would put Android on their console based on the belief that Nintendo will target smartphone gamers with NX.

How does my OS discussion relate to hardware replacement cycles? Are you becoming senile?

Also, Nintendo has used some Android functionality in the back-end. However, it did not lead to a larger OS varient similar to Amazon's Fire OS. Though, I still think it is a miss in Nintendo's part to bridge its mobile aspirations with console including instant mega-app support. But that is a different topic than my point in bold.

Bolded point is that console manufacturers are moving to a more constant revision of hardware that is continually building on a similar architecture. This is self-evident with PS4/XBone this gen, 3DS/2DS/*new*DS this gen, and what I'm betting we'll see with Switch going forward. This concept is completely opposite of the fully new/different console architecture found in each new "generation".