Will Nintendo ever make a traditional console again?

[spurgeonryan]

By traditional I mean where you play in your monitor alone. No walking around, taking on trains, etc.

This seems like a common question, but not one I can remember talking about.

Nintendo has had great success since the Game boy with handhelds . Leave out some outliers such as the virtual boy (not really handheld, but thought I would mention), Wii U( again, you could not leave your house a far as I know) and I am sure a few others, possibly the game boy micro.

Now they have the Switch which has done amazing as both a handheld and a play on your television, unless you got the cheap version so I am told. I believe all my kids have the cheap version as they only seem to play in the switch itself.

Nintendo has never really went for top visuals, so that does not seem to be a draw for them or by visuals I mean pure power. Nintendo itself and some third parties have certainly made some very pretty games in the past and the visuals are not anything to be mad about, but hopefully you all know what I mean. They were not getting a game like The last of Us or the games that CGi used to post extensively about in the past.

So handhelds and the power that they currently have seem to be everything Nintendo and it's gamers want.

With all that being said, and I am sure I left much out of the conversation, I would say no, they currently  have no reason to ever go traditional again.