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

[EricHiggin]

curl-6 said:

EricHiggin said:

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.

That's how it would likely end up to be honest, you'd get a portable version that ran at 720p, and a home console that just played the portable version at 1440p-4K on the big screen. If you were lucky maybe you'd get a few tweaks to draw distance, shadows, etc but the core experience would be limited by the bones of the portable version, as such it'd be a tough sell to those who care about graphics as its game would look significantly less pretty than PS/Xbox.

Bigger devs would probably make a reasonable effort to improve the games overall presentation on a powerful Switch 2 home console, but I think there would end up a fair amount of devs that would do very little for the home console version if they were allowed.

So you're mostly right I'd say. It would make it a much harder sell to those who want a powerful Nin home console, because they obviously want the benefits of owning a piece of hardware like that, and only getting those benefits some of the time may not be enough. At that point, buying the hybrid instead might make more sense for them, so then why even make the powerhouse console?