Franz Brötchen;226903071 said:
Disagreeing extremely here. The device is nothing like the WiiU. This is already proven by the great reception of the reveal and the Jimmy Fallon segment.
It's exactly like the Wii U in that they doubled down on the "move your game off the TV" aspect. In utility, it is a Wii U with vastly extended (infinite) working range measured from the base unit. In design approach, it is an inversion of the Wii U, moving the processing hardware and storage responsibilities from the base unit into the controller.
Franz Brötchen;226903071 said:
Consumers at large more often than not don't care about power. Many claim they do, the success of Minecraft, Pokémon, the PS2, the Wii, the DS, the 3DS prove the opposite can be true.
Price and good 1st party exclusive beget install base begets exclusive 3rd party support begets ongoing hardware sales.
The sales split between 3DS and 3DS XL still demonstrates quite clearly that consumers are more than willing to pay for a premium experience. So do the sales splits of the hilariously single-digit number of day-and-date multiplatform Vita+3DS releases. If there is a better way to experience the same game, consumers will pay for it.
3DS and Wii peculiarities (dual screens, controller) led to many de-facto exclusive designs simply because they were too difficult to transfer to other platforms. The Switch does not have any built-in advantage of this sort. EO, Layton, Ace Attorney are either dead already or, if they do get reworked to a single wide-screen setup, are no longer self-shackled to a Nintendo design. The Switch will, completely unlike the Wii, completely unlike the 3DS, have to compete on the quality of the experience it delivers, and performance
is a factor in this, always has been.
The new advantage it has is making every game a portable game, if the consumers wishes it. There is no longer a developer-imposed "portable game" vs "console game" dichotomy.
Actually I see this as Nintendo's best shot at receiving and retaining 3rd party multiplatform releases, simply because the option to go portable on anything and everything might outweigh the performance drawbacks.