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zeldaring on 27 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. 

Hard disagree here if wiiu was aps4 and sold 60 million switches would have still came out on probably 2018 and still did great and probably be the same power wise.