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Norion on 22 July 2022
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Kyuu said:

As someone who once viewed gaming PCs as a waste of money, I now consider PC the best platform by a very noticeable margin. And a lot of console gamers are starting to feel the same way (provided they can afford a decent gaming PC).

Xbox selling as good as it is despite every 1st party game going PC day and date, and Sony inevitably growing bigger by accessing the PC playerbase with their partial-support, will undoubtedly get Nintendo to consider partly-supporting PC. If it works for Sony, I don't see why it wouldn't work for Nintendo.

Drip feed, monitor the market, and adapt accordingly. Hell, not even MS with its weaker 1st party lineup (so far) and relatively abrupt all out PC support is negatively impacted. I don't know why a lot of people assume Nintendo supporting PC would spell its doom when Series X/S are doing great even with far less unique elements that distinguish them from PC. What does Xbox offer that PC doesn't apart from power per buck?

If it doesn't hurt Xbox with no exclusives, it shouldn't hurt Sony with its timed-exclusives. If it doesn't hurt Sony, it shouldn't hurt Nintendo. There is just no way Nintendo won't attempt to support PC "IF" both MS and Sony see a significant growth in revenue and profits. They'd be leaving too much money on the table.

Sony expects their 1st party software revenue to more than double by 2025, and I think they might. Nintendo won't just look at that increase and act like nothing happened. They will want to access this playerbase as well.

I wonder, what made you used to view them as a waste of money?

A reason Nintendo could be negatively impacted more by it is them relying on exclusives a lot more. I would bet that a much higher percentage of Switch owners bought a Switch either entirely or mostly due to the exclusives compared to buyers of Xbox and Playstation so my guess is a bigger portion of people would stop buying Nintendo hardware if they didn't have to and with portable PC gaming getting a lot better lately it wouldn't surprise me if a notable portion of Switch owners would instantly move to buying Nintendo games to play on something like a Steam Deck if that was an option. If Sony loses maybe a few million PS5 sales from this move I could see Nintendo easily losing over a dozen million Switch 2 sales from it.

I would love if they joined Microsoft and Sony though so I hope the negative impact of doing it the way Sony is wouldn't be high enough to make it a bad business decision for them.