The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[OdinHades]

Soundwave said:

Thing is it's not 1999 or 2004 anymore. 

The majority of the Nintendo buyer base and even the main reason the Mario movie is performing through the roof is the fact that the majority of the buyer base are now *adults* with a high level of disposable income. 

You don't want to cheap out on the hardware as it will disappoint early adopters. People are willing to pay more for hardware in this day and age and we've seen even from things like the XBox Series S ... people would rather pay more for a PS5 or XBox Series X. Ditto for Switch Lite versus Switch OLED/Base. People *want* to be excited about the hardware they're taking home from the store, not "well it's kind of a piece of crap hardware, but at least it was cheap" ... that's not enticing. 

Your POV is 15 years out of date IMO. Nintendo is like Marvel now, once upon a time characters like Spider-Man and Captain America were considered "for kids" properties, but today because those IP have huge fan bases that are now grown up, they simply outnumber any single generation of children.

I don't know about that. I am an adult with lots of disposable income and quite frankly I don't care at all about hardware specs anymore. Graphics have become good enough for me to simply not care anymore. I have 3 switch consoles here but neither a PS5 nor an Xbox. Because those consoles have far to few compelling games even 2 years after launch.

I care about graphics so little that I am playing Skyrim on the Switch right now, even though I have a PC with an RTX 3070 sitting under my desk. For the sole reason that I can turn on the switch and be right inside the game without waiting for the console and the game to boot or some stupid updates and stuff. That is quite important for me as an adult with lots of disposable income but quite little time to spend on gaming nowadays. 

(Theoretically that scenario would also be possible with my Steam Deck, but for some reason Skyrim always crashes when I wake up the device, lol =P)

In other words, I don't think specs are too important. Of course the next Switch should be more capable. But it doesn't need to compete with the PS5 or Xbox. Modern engines scale very well and on top of that, 3rd parties aren't as important as the used to be anyway. If you ask me EA, Activision and the likes just keep releasing the same shitty games over and over again and most people I know play Indie games anyway. And those won't have a problem to run on whatever the hell Nintendo releases next.

But anyway, I can only speak for myself of course.