Their market covers children, casuals and adults wanting to relive their childhood. Those gamers do not want to spend huge sums of money and are quite happy with a cartoon presentation with a party atmosphere. But it’s a niche market. The only way they can make a huge impact is to attract lots of casuals like the Wii did, using some sort of party gimmick.

I’m not sure Nintendo can repeat that success again because the casuals have moved onto mobile phones and tablets. You can’t just repeat the same thing and hope to get them back. You have to have something new, because it’s the novel and new that attracts the casuals.

I agree but I trust Nintendo and Nvidia enough to believe they would produce a balanced machine. I don’t own one yet but I know there are also powerful machines that lag and have issues PC or console.

Powerful hardware is a lot more than just graphics quality.

There is a reason why PS4 launched in the west first and second in Japan.
You can’t play the PS4 inside a bus or a train.

Because of it’s lower spec, they can iterate on the same design, perhaps even more quickly and with more availability after that “honeymoon”. Much like they’ve done with the DS line, with just as much hype as anything else MS or Sony will come up with during that time period.

Nintendo has historically done this with the same reception every time. Nintendo managed to find an audience within the PC-in-your-living room approach that is XBO and PS4 with the Switch, as they did with the Wii during the XBox-360/PS3 era.

Nintendo will find that audience again, when PS5 and XB2 are out.

The only issue will be if they mis-step on that iteration like they did with the Wii-U.

I dunno bout you but there are plenty of western games I’d love to have in my pocket if it were an option. Rocket League among them.

And yet, is that not an acceptable trade off? For portability, for the ability to take that game with you on the go without having to pack up a heavy and easily-damaged box and all its power and connector cables? Or Rocket League, or Skyrim, or hypothetically Fallout?

If that doesn’t appeal to you then obviously, getting the game on PC or another console is the way to go, but I think there’s a significant audience who’ll bite.

As this article say….the choice they made was brilliant. …the price, specs, battery life features are all OK.

“Powah” can stay. ..the system is very stable and millions of people love it.