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Jaicee on 13 May 2018
| RolStoppable said: It's not hard to see why Switch is a success and why neither the Turbo Express, Nomad and PSP Go were successful. The most important factor is that Switch is actually a different concept, because it's a true hybrid, meaning that all of its design from hardware to software was about home and portable gaming from the get-go. Both the Turbo Express and Nomad were afterthoughts and consumers noticed all of the blatant problems, like bulky design and very poor battery life which went against the entire idea of portability and rendered both devices virtually pointless. Being able to play games of consoles that were already on their way out wasn't enticing either, because the money was much better invested in competent new consoles that had already launched or were about to launch shortly. TE and Nomad were all about selling old games. The PSP Go's idea of a hybrid (if you can even call it that) is the opposite of Switch's. Switch allows people to play home console software on the go, but the aforementioned Sony device was about getting handheld games on the TV display. |
The point about systems like Nomad having been about selling old games is a good one. As memory serves, for example, the Saturn was already out at the time of the Nomad's release. Now had Sega launched the Saturn in a dual home/handheld fashion, THAT might made a bigger splash.
