Seems to be the Year of Nintendo Burning Bridges. Upside is, maybe all the competition they’re finally getting in both the handheld space and in some of their big software franchises will force them to try to produce better content and hardware. Or it’ll be Nintendo and they’ll stay greedy in their walled garden with inferior products; at the very least we’ll have some superior alternatives to enjoy elsewhere!
The Nintendo switch is one of the single most popular consoles of all time and no amount of abuse has driven their fans away so I don’t think this will be the final straw. The only thing that will hurt their next console is if they drop the ball as hard as they did like with Wii-U, which is very unlikely as they are basically signaling they’re just doing a switch v2. Xbox is absolutely shitting the bed right now and sony is figuring out their future given the insane budgets for AAA’s that they have greenlit in the past are clearly no longer sustainable and their live service play has not panned out. The nearest competitor is the steam deck, and I would be very surprised to learn that people are viewing that as in either/or proposition given the experiences and libraries are vastly different.
Seems to be the Year of Nintendo Burning Bridges. Upside is, maybe all the competition they’re finally getting in both the handheld space and in some of their big software franchises will force them to try to produce better content and hardware. Or it’ll be Nintendo and they’ll stay greedy in their walled garden with inferior products; at the very least we’ll have some superior alternatives to enjoy elsewhere!
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The Nintendo switch is one of the single most popular consoles of all time and no amount of abuse has driven their fans away so I don’t think this will be the final straw. The only thing that will hurt their next console is if they drop the ball as hard as they did like with Wii-U, which is very unlikely as they are basically signaling they’re just doing a switch v2. Xbox is absolutely shitting the bed right now and sony is figuring out their future given the insane budgets for AAA’s that they have greenlit in the past are clearly no longer sustainable and their live service play has not panned out. The nearest competitor is the steam deck, and I would be very surprised to learn that people are viewing that as in either/or proposition given the experiences and libraries are vastly different.