Will Nintendo ever make a traditional console again?

[Norion]

zeldaring said:

Norion said:

Probably not since the market for traditional consoles is stagnating at best with signs it's actually declining a bit. The hybrid form factor adds a ton of appeal that easily makes up for the much lower power negative. A decently powerful Nintendo home console that has as much support as the Switch has gotten would still sell really well I think but you'd probably be looking at PS3 to Wii level sales instead of potentially reaching 160m.

It's gonna be intresting how the successor of the hybrid home console will do since we never had one before. Traditional consoles have always been high in demand cause of people wanting next level power wants gonna be the appeal for switch 2 since on a small screen everything looks great. 

Keep in mind that probably most Switch owners use it docked at least sometimes with many using it docked mostly or always so higher power still appeals there. In fact it'll also appeal to the handheld users since they'll get better performance and be able to play even the most demanding gen 8 tier games and even some gen 9 tier ones on the go.

For how it'll do the safe guess is it'll be really successful but not sell as much as the original Switch since it benefited a lot from Nintendo being able to re-release games from their previous system, not having any real competition in the handheld space for the vast majority of its life and in particular the the boost it got from the pandemic. The Switch 2 also has things going for it like Nintendo's brand being the strongest it's ever been but that'll only do much to make up for things like the pandemic boost. It should outsell it for the first 2-3 years but after that it should have a hard time staying ahead the following 2-3 years. 

Last edited by Norion - on 23 August 2024