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Miyamotoo on 31 October 2017
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invetedlotus123 said:
Miyamotoo said:

But its not, its not important for Switch and it wasnt for DS/Wii/3DS,  also for PS2 that was weaker than GC and OG Xbox. Wii U would be failed even with power (Wii U failed in evre way), fact that I have mentioned you 4 gaming hardware that were successful proves you are wrong. For Nintendo much more important is to have new or different experience compared to competition, like Wii and Switch.

Power on those systems wasnt a heldback. The balance betweent power/hardware reliability/price is important to not heldback sales, is like a triangle that has to be really well distributed. If it get unbalanced things cant get very ugly, like x360 RROD, ps3 launch price or Saturn lacking power for 3d games. People tend to think power isn important, but think if Nintendo ever cameback to making NES hardware and saying "our development efforts are now focused on NES hardware again", they would get a huge backlash. What im trying to say is, power just stop being important when they are not holding anything back.

Switch is around 3x weaker than PS4 and costs $300 without game while you can buy currently PS4 1TB LE console with one game for same price, but Switch like hybrid devaice has great value despite its weaker and actualy more expasive than PS4. Using NES like example is lame, but for instance Wii was literally upgraded GC, while PS3/Xbox360 were 20x stronger than Wii and Wii outsold both much more powerful consoles. It easy to see that power is not important if you offer something different compared to competition (again Wii and Switch are examples), but if you have two almost identical consoles for same price of course that power will be important (XB1 and PS4).

 

d21lewis said:
Miyamotoo said:

But its not, its not important for Switch and it wasnt for DS/Wii/3DS,  also for PS2 that was weaker than GC and OG Xbox. Wii U would be failed even with power (Wii U failed in evre way), fact that I have mentioned you 4 gaming hardware that were successful proves you are wrong. For Nintendo much more important is to have new or different experience compared to competition, like Wii and Switch.

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