Silly for Friday 8/4
Nintendo is great at what they do, and it obviously works for them, but I'd still really love to see them take a crack at a true next-gen system with some power behind it.
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i haven't used my switch in mobile mode often, but when i have man am i glad for it being there
Nintendo feels kinda like Apple in some ways. They have such a devoted fanbase, they don't actually have to try very hard with their consoles to get people to buy them. Of course, it doesn't hurt that unlike other systems they guard their proprietary stuff with extreme jealousy. I doubt I would ever buy another Nintendo again if Zelda/Mario was on PS5, for example. I already never buy games for Switch that I can literally get on any other console or PC.
I'd rather have Nintendo stay with the hybrid model. I also highly doubt they'll give up the ability to play mobile. And if they keep it as a mobile console, it will never be able to keep up with the current Sony and MS consoles.
I never took my Switch out of the dock. I would love for Nintendo to ditch the weird hybrid model that held performance back and introduced weird bugs, and just make a strong console. They won't, but I'd love it.
Eh, the Switch lacked horsepower compared to the other consoles of that generation almost entirely because it was a *mobile* game system. It was basically a super-beefed-up GameBoy, rather than an anemic Xbox or Playstation. Performance in a mobile platform has always been limited by the twin problems of battery and heat dissipation, gaming laptops (and frankly, laptops in general) have struggled with this for ages, as have, increasingly, smartphones (see the exploding Samsungs). At least for me, the Switch filled a niche I actually had a use for, gaming in a compact package on-the-go, where the other consoles just felt like anemic version of my desktop PC (because, you know, they *were*, it's hard to fit a solid GPU and CPU into a system that costs under $500)