| Alistair said: A 5 watt APU based on 2014's mobile tech is not a home console. It really shouldn't even be an argument. Add a dock to the Vita and you had the same thing. Personally the Wii U was a great console for me. If I look at the Switch, outside Mario Odyssey, nothing was new on the system for the first few years. The Gamecube to Wii transition was more exciting than the Wii U to Switch transition (20 years with only 2 power levels, only Nintendo). Would like modern mobile tech or a console based on the weakest current GPU, the 1650 Super. That's all. If Nintendo can't even do that, I'll be supporting emulators with my money, not buying another Switch (which I already sold after beating Mario Odyssey). If Nintendo wants to nip the emulator community in the bud, they can start with a decent home console. Nintendo is losing 10+ million of their life long fans with the Switch, and you can't ignore that the Switch's success is mainly the people who bought the 3DS. I have several friends with a Wii U who have bought the Switch and are less than impressed. |
What is so funny, that back in 2007 when I entered VGC, you could read the same argument about power which you write here in regards to Wii and DS. Over and over. How the Wii and DS cannot succeed, how they are not powerful enough, yada, yada, yada. It is really a tell-tale sign of a noob in regards to console sales, if you argue with power as it had any meaning for the success of a system at all.
Towards your bolded Vita argument: no, adding a dock to the Vita isn't the same thing. Because the Vita fails to have the gaming experiences that make the Switch successful. The Switch would have been the same as the Vita (and similarly successful), if it hadn't Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8 in it's first year. But it did. So it is nothing like the Vita.
