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

[EricHiggin]

JRPGfan said:

curl-6 said:

Making two separate systems, one home console and one portable, just wasn't viable any more, even with Wii U and 3DS they weren't able to produce enough software for both.

A powerful new console and a next gen portable would've been even worse, and there's no way they'd give up their portable line and go all in on a home console alone when historically their portables have always sold more.

Unifying their product lines, as they did with Switch, was really the only viable path forwards.

You can do that, by haveing the homeconsole be the same as the handheld.

Just cut out the battery/joycons/screen ect...  boom... BOM is 100$ less.
Sell it cheap. The "home" version of the Switch, for the users that don't value the portability factor.
(this could also lead to double dipping, if they first get the home version, then realise they want to get a portable one)

Slownenberg said:

Wman1996 said:

What I want is the following.
-A hybrid that is around base PS4 or more in handheld mode.
-A dock with a chipset that boosts the performance past PS4 Pro approaching Xbox One X territory. Unless the dock is pricey, I don't see it matching or exceeding the speed and GPU of Xbox Series S.
-A modern online infrastructure.
-Give people an TV-only SKU who only want to play on the TV.

yup exactly.

Literally all they need to do (in addition to continuing to pump out tons of amazing games) to have another wildly successful system that everyone is gonna love just like the Switch.

Don't even need a dock chipset though, and in discussions on here in previous years people suggested that wouldn't really be possible anyway because bandwidth between system and dock would be too slow, but I don't know nothing about that. Just handheld performance around PS4/XB1 or slightly better and a Switch-like dock that allows the system to run a faster/hotter to pump the performance up near PS4 Pro levels.

I really hope they haven't even tried to add any sort of new innovation to the system as they typically do. Maybe Switch 3 will need some innovation, but with Switch 2 just give us a straight up successor with better online infrastructure + UX, add GC to NSO Expansion Pack, and add a Home model to the family, and no joycon drift.

I've been thinking about this approach for quite some time, but I think Nin would choose to do the dock or the home console. If Nin has decided to unify their products as much as possible, then they probably won't want to do the dock and console. Switch Lite was a bit of a surprise, but it did make sense because it's not deviating that much from the Switch hybrid. I think if Nin tries to do both that the home console will get the bulk of the sales and that the performance dock won't sell very well. Maybe I'm wrong though. 

If Nin were going to make a Switch 2 hybrid, Lite, and console, then the next question would be, does Nin make a more expensive, powerful enough home console, so it get's the majority of third party games, or do they go for a cheaper console, by just taking the internals of the hybrid and putting them in a Wii-ish sized case (or smaller)?

This I'm unsure of. The cheaper console would bring in new customers who simply couldn't afford Switch or Switch 2, but will those who want a Nin home console again, yet want a powerful enough model to play most third party games, settle for a cheaper, mostly Nin only console? For me personally, if Nin makes a powerful console, it really needs to be something special, otherwise I'll stick with PS. However, if I stuck with PS, and there was a cheap enough Switch 2 home console, I'd certainly entertain the idea of getting one eventually.