Barkley said:
His point is that the Switch unified their Handheld and Home Console business because they couldn't compete in the home market, so the Switch beating this trend is the point of his post, not something that goes against what he said. Whether this was Nintendo's reason or not I don't know, but that their home consoles were in continuous decline, bar one, is true. That Nintendo wouldn't dream of creating a unified platform if both Home and Handheld were seeing great success makes sense though, would they have ever dreamt of following up the Wii and DS with a system that combines both? No because that limits the sales potential, if everyone is willing to buy two systems there's no point in combining them so they only have to buy one. |
Well he's wrong because the reason for unifying userbase is to focus on one platform and save a tonne of resources, even Sony couldn't support 2 platforms, having two platforms was twice the work and resources only where as Sony quit one market Nintendo came up with a form factor to have one platform hit both markets.
I find it funny the lack of business understanding some people have as its not about both platforms selling well it's also about whether the approach is healthy and sustainable because if it isn't it'll just implode, developing for portables was equivalent to developing for consoles and most games would require a version for both portable and home so having two platforms became a hindrance and resource sink.
