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Would you go back to home console Nintendo?

Yes 43 64.18%
 
No 17 25.37%
 
There's a possibility. 7 10.45%
 
Total:67

Probably.

But if Nintendo is continuing the same route of low power system and generic looking games I will still buy it, but at a low price.



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Gladly, I have no interest in portable gaming. What's more; I just bought an insane TV, and would like even more uses for it.



Interesting consensus forming. I'd nearly have sworn it would be mostly a handheld system given it's lack of power. I can't imagine the pain Nintendo only gamers are having so with 720p or less on a big 4k TV, must be awful. Stuff like GTA remastered looks bad enough in handheld, I couldn't imagine playing on TV.



No I wouldn't want Nintendo to go back to making boring old home-only systems again. And there's no way they will since it'd be a terrible business decision. But I do think they should have a "Home" model in future gens. I kinda thought they would come out with a Switch Home for $200 this year perhaps with the chips not underclocked so that people who wanted a tv-only Switch could have that on the cheap and with slightly better performance than the portable models.

So I do think a Home model should be part of the family going forward because that would expand Nintendo's audience a bit and even some people in the established audience would prefer that model. But Nintendo should neeeevverrrrr go home-system only, and I greatly prefer having portability so I'll always get their hybrid models.



Yeah I would certainly give a home only Nintendo console a go. Heck for the most part I only use the Switch Docked, so I'm pretty much there now.



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Most of my Nintendo gaming is done in handheld mode. I am fine having PS5 as my sole console connected to the TV.



Yes, but it needs to be $399-$499 and worth every penny in terms of the hardware.
It also needs most 3rd party games, and those games need to launch in a similar timeframe to PS5, not 6 months later.

A $299 Nin home console won't cut it, and I'm not buying that and a PS5. In that case I'd just get PS5 when it drops to $399.

Last edited by EricHiggin - on 12 September 2024

I've always been more of a handheld player. Now that we get those smaller scale titles + the big guns on the same portable system, I don't see any reason to go back to separate systems.



Yes. I rarely use my Switch in handheld mode.



I almost exclusively have used my Switch as a console and only had it undocked to play Animal Crossing. Now I’ve sold AC:NH I’ve no use for the handheld aspect of it. I’d absolutely buy a home Nintendo console if they made one, as I’ve bought every other Nintendo home console since SNES (ok, I didn’t buy them all, I was a kid, but I’ve wanted and had them all since then and started buying my own from the WiiU era).

As an aside, if they did this and released a handheld console also, I would likely also buy that, although honestly I am not missing having a handheld console in my life.