| Sephiran said: I actually think Nintendo are masters at knowing what matters to mass consumers and what they can cheap out on because only a select few tech obsessives will care about it. The screen is a massive none issue for majority of consumers. Even on gaming forums threads have been created where the clear majority haven't even noticed the Switch 2 screen is supposedly bad. And that is on gaming forums, where you will find a lot more spec knowledge than among general consumers. Its Nintendo's mastery of knowing general gaming consumers that make them so competitive on the market. PC handhelds on the other hand are doomed as long as they cater to the small tech bubble and make ever more expensive handhelds with no understanding at all of how futile it is to cater to a small demographic of obsessives. And i think that is what makes the tech bubble so anti-Nintendo, because Nintendo always has the better view of the market and how general consumers think, and no matter how many youtube videos they make about how people should just put ever more money into a ROG Ally instead of a Switch 2, the sales for the Switch 2 will just keep on dominating. |
Nintendo has majorly misread the market in the past, as has pretty much every company, and they'll do so again in the future - deeming them 'masters at knowing what matters to mass consumers' & saying 'Nintendo always has the better view of the market and how general consumers think' sounds a bit kool-aidy to me & is provably wrong when looking at their history.
Switch 2 could have been half as performant & had an even worse screen and it'd likely still be sold out, such was the level of anticipation created by the success of Switch 1.
Also, the SWOLED being the best selling version of S1 since it's introduction doesn't really support your point that consumers don't care about the screen...
Some sub-£200 phones come with OLEDs now, I think Nintendo could have included one if they wanted to, but going with an inferior screen at launch then having folk double-dip mid-generation makes line go up more!
