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What an odd article to see when this has been well known for years.
Hah, literally 20 years since they’ve abandoned the spec wars.
Writers nintendo knowledge starts and ends with the switch I guess
Actually read the article, it covers everything since the NES
Nintendo’s been saying this for decades, though this particular message is ridiculous.
But I still love playing my old SNES games. The Switch was laughably under-powered, but I still sank hundreds of hours into dozens and dozens of games… Because Nintendo values gameplay over spectacle. They’re not the only ones, of course, but I think they consistently do it better than most.
I wouldn’t say the Switch was laughably underpowered, it was a very solid step up from its actual predecessor, the 3DS.
Very true, though I think for many it is still a home console in their head because on the surface it appears like a direct continuation of the Wii U. It’s actually the opposite - a portable console that can optionally be used as a home console with, in some cases, improvements to the visuals when doing so. Some people still see Nintendo as being in direct competition with Sony and Microsoft when they really haven’t been for a long time now.
Honestly I think they have a point. A lot of gamers who live for specs (myself included) have started scratching that itch with a PC instead of a console. I have a switch almost exclusively for the first party titles and for its versatility. Any graphics intensive games I play are going on the PC. I actually bought a series X right in the heart of the COVID restrictions, and it almost never gets used.
Same here, it’s part of the reason why I’ve never bothered to own a Sony or Microsoft console. Their first party titles are not radically different to anything I could play on my PC, and often I can actually play them on my PC with significantly better visuals/performance/input. Meanwhile, Nintendo is still puting out first party titles that are quite unique to their systems. It’s actually so good that they’ve become a portable-focused company now because their systems and games have become the perfect accompaniments for PC gamers.
Nintendo has carved out a path where specs no longer matter.
Lol…ok. have fun with that
That’s how Nintendo made money since Game Boy at least. That worked fine for them for over 30 years now. It’s the Gameboy people remember and not the Game Gear or Lynx despite technically being inferior.
I was actually looking at a chart earlier today, and it’s crazy. They had declining sales going from NES->SNES->N64->GameCube.
The first time a home console beat the sales of the NES was the Wii, when they stopped chasing performance of the systems.
Not the same chart, but to provide proof - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
i think gunpei yokoi called it “lateral thinking with withered technology” or something like that. it’s a lesson i wish the rest of the industry would learn- even “weak” computers today are capable of incredible things and we could be passing those savings to the customer or spending the extra budget on actual innovation Wii-style but no! more triangles!
They let Sony and Xbox go head to head on fidelity and meanwhile sold 150 million consoles with Android Phone specs. I’d say that was pretty successful, even if there’s a cohort of gamers who were or are unhappy with how capable it was.
they are
Selling you 10 year old hardware at modern prices so you can play pokemon with stutters and freezes. Classic
