If you put a gun to their head and forced them to, sure.
Will they? No.
They're never likely to make a standard home console ever again, it's hybrids using mobile chip components from now on until the point where all game hardware gets replaced by streaming services. The age of the "big box Nintendo console" (NES to SNES to N64 to GCN to Wii to Wii U) is basically over.
The hardware losses stuff is not really that big of a deal anymore, even Sony/MS do not take huge losses on hardware anymore. All the machines just use the same AMD/Nvidia off the shelf components anyway, there's nothing special or heavily propietary anymore like there used to be in the 90s or even the early to mid 2000s where new chipsets were a huge undertaking and completely custom designs. Modern home consoles are just a watered down PC in a box.
Even the Switch is nothing custom, it's just a stock Nvidia Tegra processor used in tablets. The days of PS3 CELL or Dolphin Gekko/Flipper GPU, or all these interesting custom designs is long over.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 28 May 2018
