Nintendo: “We’re going to keep the money machine printing”
Gamers: Shocked pikachu face
What else realistically could have been their main business?
Revitalizing those hanafuda cards that got them their start. Maybe this is the century.
Aw, I was hoping for more love hotels
Patent-trolling?
Suing the shit out of some honest-working gamers?
Those are low-revenue pursuits. They do it out of love.
And they are fresh out of love.
Next console, I assumed
Switch 2 when?
Its called the steam deck
So I just got one myself and wow, it really does feel like that. It feels like the switch is for children and yhe steam deck for adults. More expensive and more complicated but just so much better.
When necessary, more or less. The typical console generation is about seven years. But that’s just a reflection of how long a company can get away with making the same machine.
So long as the Switch has no meaningful competition, gets a ton of current games ported, and flies off shelves, Nintendo has very little reason to make it better. Like most consoles - they’d rather shave off features and simplify the hardware to cut costs. These savings are even passed on to the consumer. Nintendo would rather have two customers buying games than get more money for one machine.
The alternative would be a Switch Pro that starts overpriced and gradually drops. It can be genuinely expensive to make and to buy… so long as the Switch Lite is still right there for $200, and runs all the same games well-enough.
And this is assuming they don’t go from Switch to some wacky bullshit nobody expects. They are a toy company at heart. They don’t want to compete with Valve or Sony or… Android. They crave blue ocean. They want to be the only company that offers [blank].
