Was Nintendo right to opt out of the graphics arms race?

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Leynos said:

curl-6 said:

When it comes to Switch 1/2 you can't have both though, a portable device cannot be as powerful as a dedicated console.

Nor no longer split their development time for both. We saw them struggle to support both Wii U and 3DS. Dev costs are too high now. They had to converge.

I think he's referring to the Wii being an overclocked GameCube, y'all. In which case, I mostly agree. That decision kept a lot of good games from that generation off of the Wii, or they got severely gimped joke ports like Dead Rising.