Would you return to and buy a Nintendo Home only console?

[HoloDust]

curl-6 said:

HoloDust said:

I don't consider myself Nintendo fan (or fan of any platform holder), but I am Zelda and Mario Kart fan, so I'm one of those 13.5M+ that got into WiiU (I ended up getting much more titles, but hey).

After all the talk of hybrid, Nintendo proved with Switch Lite, only two and half year into the cycle, they are more than willing to make core Switch hardware in different, non-hybrid iteration than original - at this point, that's all I'm asking of Nintendo when it comes to home consoles, Switch TV device, derived from same core hardware as "main" version, with potentially better cooling. One software platform, one hardware platform, in 3 variants, with hybrid being lead platform for development.

Yeah I'd grab a TV-only Switch 2 variant immediately, as I don't care about portability and just wanna play Nintendo games on my TV.

For whatever reason though, Nintendo seems to have decided against this, with the current machine anyway. The opportunity's been right there the whole Switch generation and they've passed on it year after year.

Maybe they don't wanna use up precious manufacturing capacity on it if they predict it would sell less than the other models. Buggered if I know.

Well, maybe now that they have certified success at their hands with Switch, they'll reconsider and make home version for Switch 2...it's not like they would actually design completely different home console, just another version of same the hardware (admittedly, I do hope that version would have higher CPU/GPU clocks than docked clocks of docked hybrid, otherwise not much point for it).