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

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EricHiggin said:

curl-6 said:

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.

Difference is, whoever intends to port to Switch 2 has, more or less, already made up their mind about it, seeing how successful Switch was. So Switch 2 Home, as a stronger out of two, would be from their point of view another tweak to base Switch 2 port that actually gives them more freedom, not the other way around as in case with XSX and XSS.

That said, I don't see Nintendo doing it out of the gate - maybe down the line, in few years after Switch 2 launch.