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

[EricHiggin]

HoloDust said:

EricHiggin said:

Would those devs know for certain that a home console was coming, or are they anticipating just another hybrid and handheld? They won't change their minds if they find out there's a home console in the mix now? If the console is spec'd the same or very similar to the hybrid, then they have little to worry about, but if its even somewhat competitive with PS5 and XBSX, then they've got a much bigger decision to make. If those devs aren't happy about having to deal with both the XBSX and XBSS hardware and performance gap, then a powerful Switch 2 home console would be just that much worse. Then there's the fact they would hafta still support PS5, PS5 Pro, XBSS, XBSX, plus SW2 Home, SW2 Hybrid, and SW2 Lite now.

It's not going to be so clear for third parties to just automatically support Switch 2 if a powerful home console was involved.

My point is - if you've decided you're going to make a Switch 2 port, it is handheld mode that's your primary target you need to worry about, cause that is decision maker/breaker. Everything else, docked and/or Switch 2 Home are more powerful than that and it's easier to ramp up quality from lowest, handheld mode, than going the other way.

I get it, but you're assuming devs will just automatically decide to do the extra work. Will they? Can they? Not all devs have unlimited resources to just do whatever they want. Did they all ramp up and make sure their PS3 games met their deadlines, while being the same quality if not better than 360? 

Maybe Nin and Nvidia would go to the trouble of doing everything they could to make this relatively easy, or easy enough, but if they didn't, kinda like how SNY didn't with PS3, then devs aren't automatically going to be able to properly support a powerful home console. What you'd get worst case, is Nin would have to be lenient when it came to game upgrades, so some games could simply just be the hybrid version playing on the home console, with no extra benefits.