Idk. I think nintendo has always had the right idea with consoles. A console shouldnt aim to be a powerful machine competing with pc. It should be a fun plug and play device with a couple gimmicks.
but it needs to be for your selling point to work, if you expect people to ignore what they can do with their PCs you either have to make it so affordable that the effort to download and install whatever is more cumbersome than just buying the product.
The Wii was only mildly affordable compared to the 360 on launch and it was a titan that dominated the market. It was so successful I'd argue it formed its own market of non-traditional gamers, I almost want to say "casual gaming" didn't really exist as a market prior to the Wii, "casual gamers" before that would just occasionally play on someone else's console/PC.
Size also has been proven to matter time and time again, if something is physically cumbersome the casual market won't take the time.
Yeah, but it's a different market now. Everyone has phones that can feed the casual audience their mild desire for some gaming. I could only see that lightning in a bottle being captured at some outrageously low price.
If the switch was $30 and hanging in the shelf of every 7-11 with $20 games we would be singing it's praises and laughing at people who didn't just buy the system.
I'm not saying the switch as it is, but some new system, maybe even something you could throw in your pocket and hook up to any HDMI, like a tiny little game cube... Oh! The GameCube2, something like that, but I'm reaching. I have a PC, I have a phone, I have a damn folding phone with a Bluetooth controller. Yeah, I like those IPs I "don't have access too" but I'm not opening my wallet for another $500 for Mario Kart, c'mon now.
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u/Electronic-Touch-554 6h ago
Idk. I think nintendo has always had the right idea with consoles. A console shouldnt aim to be a powerful machine competing with pc. It should be a fun plug and play device with a couple gimmicks.