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duduspace1 on 29 August 2018
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quickrick said:
Shaqazooloo0 said:
Only gaming enthusiast care about power. The market cares about how hype the product is, the games and the features.
If people cared about the power then the results of every gen up until this one would be different.

you are comparing apples to oranges, if people didn't care about power they wouldn't even upgrade there consoles. just compare ps4 to xbox, xbox was the stronger brand with similar games, and ps4 was outselling it the whole gen, i would bet anything if specs were reversed ps4 would be losing in the US by a big margin.

Yes, people do care about power but at some point it hits diminishing returns and other factors come into play.....like the Switch's versatility. At this point in time, if the Switch had Wii level graphics, it certainly wouldn't sell; not sure if even Wii U level Graphics would have sold it despite the added portability. But people look at output of First party like SMO and BOTW plus Third party like Fifa 18, Doom, Wolfeinstein 2 and go "This ain't half bad".

The Switch has just about enough power to be a decent Home Console and an exceptional Handheld at an acceptable price point, that is precisely why it is selling so well. In a way, Nintendo redefined the market with some blue ocean thinking.