Nintendo's success with the Switch both a blessing and a curse?

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Mr Puggsly said:

Pemalite said:

It would have been impossible. 28nm+Tegra 4 was what was "leading edge" on the market at the time.

Unless of course Nintendo went the custom route and built a mobile chip geared towards gaming rather than take an off-the-shelf SoC.

Well considering how powerful the Vita was in 2011, maybe it would have been possible to make a $299 portable gaming console at par with 7th gen consoles or Wii U. Creating something exactly as capable Switch seems unlikely for price reasons.

However, in 2013 3DS was doing great and maybe Nintendo still had hope for Wii U. If Nintendo made the Switch in 2013 then they would have already moved away from 3DS and would not have tried to capitalize on Wii's success. I mean you don't leave the home console market after selling 100 million consoles.

I feel Switch launched when the tech was right and even though Wii U failed it was inspiration. Nintendo also seems to be making a fortune porting Wii U games or making sequels for Switch.

7th gen consoles weren't on par with the wii u. A hypothetical 2013 switch could maybe match an x360 in terms of power but that's it. Would need a 2015 release to match the wii u at $299.