Can NINTENDO make traditional home console that sells well?

[Ulternia]

quickrick said:

Ulternia said:
It depends on how they handle it. If it was a traditional home console with similar specs to the competition and home entertainment capabilities, they’d probably crush the other companies. The only things holding them back now are third-Party support, traditional controllers and streaming/online capabilities.

If the console was underpowered and had difficult controllers, it would do even worse than the Wii U.

they did with n64, and gamecube. the problem with nintendo home consoles is that they are no longer a desired product, home most sale based on third party games, and those big franchises have never been established on a nintedo home console.

The N64 and GameCube were pure gaming devices. The PSOne and PS2 were gaming devices and home media consoles with the PSOne being an incredibly cheap (yet considered one of the GOAT) CD players. The PS2 was an incredibly cheap DVD player. Sony didn’t get to where they are just from “big franchises” - they got there by revolutionizing the home entertainment you can get from a cheap console. If Nintendo truly wanted to compete and put out a console capable of home entertainment, Sony would be in the same pickle Microsoft is in now. Sony’s current first-party Line-up, although growing and improving, pales in comparison to Nintendo’s and if they didn’t have the advantages of third-Party support, home entertainment capabilities and ergonomic controls over Nintendo, I don’t see what they’d have left - except their hardcore phones and a history of trophies.

 

But luckily, this will never happen and we won’t see Nintendo truly start to poach third parties until a Switch revision that upgrades the hardware.