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JRPGfan on 26 February 2024
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Wman1996 said:
zeldaring said:

I think switch would eventually came out anyway but we would still have powerful Nintendo hardware doing 40-50 million units while switch does 120 million tops. I would have said to wouldn't work before but after the Switch yes a ninetndo home console only could  do 50 million plus easy.

Switch might've still happened eventually in this situation, but it would probably be half a gen at best in spec upgrades.

Wii U had some specs better than Xbox 360 and PS3, some worse (net lead over them). A Wii U in this What-If would be on par with a PS4. 

The upcoming Nintendo system in real life will be around a PS4 in specs at least if rumors are to be believed, possibly better.

Getting back to my earlier sentence, Nintendo would not cut Wii U off in 2017 in this situation and even by 2019 or so when they release a new system there's no way it would be a Switch with PS5-like specs. 

A hybrid system seemed inevitable, and Nintendo seemed to pick the best time to do it when they could get away with a bump (but not generational leap) from Wii U and a huge leap from New 3DS. 

But not my much. Wii U is basically akin to the same gen as the XB360 and PS3, in terms of performance imo.
Its basically just a gen behinde at that point.  Which was a major bummer, near end of the gen cycle, they release a console that was dated in terms of specs.
When people where looking forwards to a new gen, with better stuff, dreaming of the PS4/XB1 ect.

If it instead as ahead of the PS4 and XB1, in terms of launch date, but with simularish hardware...... it would be in a much differnt place than the wii U ended up.