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curl-6 on 01 July 2020
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Nate4Drake said:
curl-6 said:

The why is simple; they tried playing the power game and kept failing in sales; (N64, Gamecube) and as development costs increased with hardware power, these failures would only have gotten more and more costly. There was no reason for them to continue to make powerful consoles; it's more expensive and comes with both increased competition and increased losses upon failure. On the other hand, the Wii and Switch showed that by taking a different approach they can be more successful than they ever were making "powerful" consoles.

And I'd say the Wii actually did have more quality games than N64 and Gamecube. Maybe not AAA ones, but since when are those the only kind of games that can be quality? 

Switch is very successful, it brings good money to Nintendo, and they could still have a powerful Home consoles with standard format, great 3rd party support and even better specs releasing the machine 1/2 year/s after Sony and MS with a couple of stellar killer App on Launch.   The main problem with N64 and GC was not the power and development costs, but the "non standard" format and not enough 3rd party support. Nintendo can work around this, fix it, and be successful in both Home Console Market and Portable.   They would have the best portable on the Market, and even the best version of multiplatform games on the most powerful Home Consoles and some of the best exclusive jaw dropping games ever.  Can't Nintendo do this ? It's more risky, I give you that, but they can do it !

   And why not some kind of special connettivity between "Switch2" and their new ultra powerful Home Consoles ?  Nintendo have the creativity to do special things. 

You're suggesting Nintendo return to supporting two separate systems; the whole point of the Switch was them accepting they cannot do this any longer and pooling their resources on a single platform, and doing so has turned out to be one of the best moves they ever made with the Switch selling faster than almost any system in history.

They simply don't gain by making a powerful home console now; there isn't room on the market for three similar systems, never has been. Their current position of having a single hybrid system allows them to make the most games and the most money.