Nintendo Switch Topic; #byebyenx

[Gors]

It's now the 'other' console though isn't it? Like the NES was THE console, then Sega took a bite and now Sony and Microsoft are your big 2 and you 'also' have a Nintendo.

Oh hey what you playing Fifa on? Not Nintendo. Oh hey this new game is out, what's it on? Everything but Nintendo!

The Switch, will do fine, Nintendo will make money. Out of their piece of the market. Out of there comfortable 'we will not change strategy' market.

As you might've known, the game industry has changed, too. Back then, videogames were measured by their raw power. They didn't stamp a huge "16-bit" on the cartridge socket of every Genesis for nothing.

the NES was THE console because it was strong at the time, it had a big userbase. The games up until the Gamecube/PS2 era followed suit by making the consoles compete in raw power. They also thought like everyone else and the result wasn't great.

It's not a surprise that current Nintendo consoles are numerically weaker than the concorrents. However they're the only one with balls enough to do something different. They don't want to compete in power, because the result is always a dumbed down PC. Not surprisingly, most of the PS4/XBone games are found on PC bar a few exclusives and the overall experience is basically the same.

So personally I think that as a whole, Nintendo's strategy is alright. I wish I was as comfortable as them, doing wildly different hardware every iteration instead of being extremely creative like the rest and aiming for 4k resolution, which is what gaming really needs.