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

[Hardstuck-Platinum]

Vinther1991 said:

I am not sure actually. I think it always made sense for their GameBoy and DS lines, affordability and decent battery life were more important then.
With their home consoles, I think theyopted out too early, it was a massive gamble for the Wii, luckily for them, people got really excited about the motion control thing. Had that not gotten so much excitement, Nintendo would have killed themselves with the weak hardware, as they would have had to sell the system on their core franchises only. Today you can still get a solid amount of cross-platform support with hardware a full generation weaker than the competitors, especially because of indies. In 2006 that just wasn’t possible. The gamble mostly paid off, because people initially were hyped about the wiimote, but Nintendo payed the price for the weak hardware in the Wii’s twilight years and especially with the Wii U.

From Switch onwards the strategy is the right one. There is very little to gain by competing with Sony and Microsoft on hardware specs.

Little to gain eh? What about The Witcher 4? GTA 6? COD? Battlefield? but yeah very little to gain. 

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