"Nintendo makes consoles only for Nintendo games" Myth or fact?

[zeldaring]

TheMisterManGuy said:

zeldaring said:

I think what you and I think is important are 2 totally different things. The Switch hardware was just based on what was available for a amazing price of course they are gonna make the best out of it for thirdpartys. Looking at how long Switch 2 is taking and the hardware specs it's gonna be really dated when it comes out unless they surprise us which I doubt. They litterly just gave ps5 almost 5 Years of thirdparty games with out real competition, if it was priority we would see. Switch 2 end of 2023 

I mean yeah, it needed to be like that because its a mobile device, so it needs to consider things like battery life, heat consumption, physical size etc. And getting the most out of whatever is currently available has always been Nintendo's thing with hardware. NES, Game Boy, SNES, GBA, NDS, Wii, 3DS, Switch were all built with this approach, and its worked more often than it hasn't.

And like I said, people really overestimate just how much most developers actually care about having super powerful specs. Most developers just want an easy-to-develop for system with a lot of flexibility and a good development environment.

Most thirdpartys want a powerful system with a good development environment.  Well I guess it depends what  developers you are talking about but most AAA games do like to push the consoles to their limits. we already see engines like u5 struggles with current gen consoles. Switch 1 missed a huge amount of thirdparty games cause it was too weak.