Would you rather have the Switch or a powerful conventional Nintendo Home Console that competes with PS & Xbox?

[Shadow1980]

Absent any business considerations and only accounting for personal preference, I'd rather have a powerful home console. While I do sometimes use my Switch undocked, I never take it out of the house, and I prefer to just use the Pro controller while playing on TV and getting the audio through my stereo system.

Could it compete? I don't know. We never really had a situation where we had three conventional consoles of comparable power on any kind of even footing market-wise. The last three-way race between consoles of comparable power was Gen 6, but the Xbox & GameCube never really stood a chance because the PS2 had already established itself as the dominant system before the others were even released. With Nintendo doing well and having a lot of goodwill in the present, I could see the potential for them to compete with PlayStation and probably easily surpass Xbox, but I doubt we'd see them put up anywhere close to Switch numbers. Nintendo has found a strong niche for themselves, so even if a conventional, powerful console from them was viable and would do well, they'll probably stay doing better with hybrid consoles. The window for putting forward a conventional console to compete with Sony & MS has probably already closed. Maybe in a different timeline where the N64 was CD-based they might still be making conventional consoles.