One of PlayStation’s biggest mistakes was their abandonment of the handheld market, given the mantra that mobile phones were going to devour the market they left so-called handhelds on a silver platter to Nintendo and Kyoto since the launch of the Nintendo Switch in 2017 can be said to have enjoyed a comfortable monopoly that has allowed them to sell over 100 million consoles worldwide. However, we think it’s time to remove the console, but it’s taking too long.
Why is the Nintendo Switch so annoying?
First of all, whoever writes what you read must specify that the Nintendo Switch is his favorite console, however, for technology, time does not pass in vain and we can say that the console has become obsolete and that a renovation is needed immediately. . We must not forget that the classic Kyoto company bases its strategy on differentiated products with respect to the competition, which have a different perception of value and this allows them to have a monopoly and thus obtain a much higher margin. more important.
Currently, the Nintendo Switch is sold at a price that is not very different from the base model of the Steam Deck, but with a performance difference in favor of the Valve console that can be considered a generational leap, but a size much larger, so much so that it cannot be considered portable, although none of the hybrid consoles can be called so due to its size.
And while it’s true that on a console it’s the games that sell the product, the Nintendo Switch’s hardware is limited today to say the least and is becoming a burden for many game developers. And that could mean the end of the console, especially as Nintendo keeps denying it.
Convert vs Transport
When two systems are quite similar, then we can recycle a good part of the material to make the original version in the second and have a second version with a very small budget. For example, a big-budget game might move into the $20-100 million production range, but porting it to a system with the technical capability to move it will only cost $1-5 million.
What happens when the technical difference between two systems is very large? Well, all the art in the game and a lot of the code has to be redone, which means spending money to make a version that, to make matters worse, due to technical differences, will be inferior to the original . Who wants to pay nearly that much for an inferior version of a game? For years, the Nintendo Switch catalog lived on porting games that cost the developers nothing, however, as we move forward in time, more and more titles are impossible to port.
Today major video game publishers refuse to make conversions because they are unprofitable and compete with higher versions of the same game. other systems, which to top it off are generally superior due to the higher specs of PlayStation and Xbox.
And mobile games?
The Nintendo console would be the ideal system for them if it weren’t for the fact that the vast majority of those who are fashionable on this platform are designed to be perpetually connected to the Internet. A feature that all terminals share for their 4G or 5G radios, but which is different on Switch in that it only has a WiFi connection.
Simply put, if you love Nintendo games and as is often the case with all platform consoles, then the Switch is the best option. However, to play franchises like Assassin’s Creed, GTA or Call of Duty, no. More than anything due to the fact that they are not even available on the platform. And it also happens with mobile games like Genshin Impact. Soon the technical limitation of the console will be such that it will finally be abandoned by the bulk of the industry.
Ideal for us would be a Switch 2, fully backwards compatible, with the ability to easily play PS4 games and 5G connectivity. However, Nintendo does not seem to be up to the task and over time the value and interest in its console fades,
