The Switch is selling like hotcakes laced with crack, but I'd really like Nintendo to make another dedicated home console. Will we ever get another dedicated home console from Nintendo?
Considering they make money hand over fist, why would they change their tune now?Nintendo marches to the beat of its own xylophonist
Hey, I'm not saying it doesn't work out for them....Considering they make money hand over fist, why would they change their tune now?
Nintendo hasn't really directly competed with Sony and Microsoft since the GameCube.Maybe, maybe not. Staying in the handheld business is probably the safer bet, since they've dominated that space for basically as long as it has existed while making a home console again would put Nintendo back into direct competition with Sony and Microsoft. Doesn't seem like they have much incentive to do that.
If they do do a home console again, it'll probably not be a traditional one.
Basically this. Nintendo owns the handheld market, and integrating that with home console functionality has put them on a path greatly divergent from Sony and Microsoft and on an island of unrivaled success. Why would they stop now?Its not something that I would be interested in, personally.
I have zero interest in Nintendo's first party games, and the only reason why I have a Switch is because it is partly a handheld.
Also, Nintendo have traditionally supported two different consoles - a home console, and a handheld - but with the Switch, or another Switch-like console, they can funnel all of their resources into one device, whilst also appealing to both the home console market, and the handheld market. I don't see them regressing back to having to support two separate ones.
The only thing that I could see happening, is a screen-less Switch, kind of like the opposite of the Switch Lite, where it is docked-only. Other than that, I don't see Nintendo returning to a place where they are directly competing with the Xbox or the Playstation anytime soon.
I think Sony and Microsoft will try to expand their games to mobile via cloud gaming instead of just releasing a dedicated handheld. I think they realized copying Nintendo hasn’t worked out for them.Basically this. Nintendo owns the handheld market, and integrating that with home console functionality has put them on a path greatly divergent from Sony and Microsoft and on an island of unrivaled success. Why would they stop now?
The bigger question is will Sony or Microsoft try to muscle in with a handheld/home console hybrid of their own like they did with the Move and Kinect respectively to rival the Wii, to which I'd say no. They'll continue to force power and ability into static consoles to outdo one another and happily leave Nintendo to its gimmicks. Which is fine, by the way. There will always be a market for static and mobile devices; spreading oneself too thinly trying to do it all at an appreciably high level to compete with PC gaming only leads to a "jack of all trades, master of none" situation that would probably be too expensive an ask for the race to dominance Sony and MS are in, i.e.: see how quickly MS abandoned the HD-DVD feature in lieu of Blu-ray to stay competitive and relevant.