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

[EricHiggin]

curl-6 said:

EricHiggin said:

From Nin's point of view maybe, if they don't care about 3rd party all that much.

If they did want to expand the ecosystem, at the very least, a Switch 2 home console SKU that's the same performance as the hybrid, for much cheaper, would totally make sense.

Pushing the performance of that home console to the max, would probably lead Nin to charge more, which might lead to it only being slightly cheaper than the hybrid, or same price. This may lead to less growth, while also splitting the hybrid user base, since some will get the home console instead.

If Nin was ever going to try and put out something even semi competitive with PS5 or XBSX, they would need to make sure they had most 3rd parties on board, otherwise its sales would make Wii U look good.

Third party games would have to be able to run on the portable SKU though, otherwise you're splitting your userbase, and if you do you drastically reduce the addressable audience which makes it less likely third parties would bother porting to your console. So again all that extra power is kinda pointless.

Can't really argue with that. I don't see Nin allowing third party games only on the high end console, and third parties, who aren't thrilled about XBSS, likely wouldn't bother to make games for Switch 2 then. Even if third parties were allowed to launch only on Switch 2 Home, most would probably pass because the userbase wouldn't be large enough, especially compared to the much larger Hybrid and Lite userbase.

That just strengthens my thoughts about Nin doing some type of console, which would hafta mean pretty much the same Hybrid internal hardware, either bone stock or stock but maxed out, at a price cheaper than the Hybrid. That or no home console at all.