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Not true. Nintendo historically made profit on every game system that came out, which explains their use of older, cheaper technology. I don’t know if this is t
by bigtex 3y ago
Not true. Nintendo historically made profit on every game system that came out, which explains their use of older, cheaper technology. I don’t know if this is true for the Switch though.
- nscalf 3y agoNintendo also makes notoriously bad consoles (by spec, not uniqueness). Their IP is more of the reason they succeed than is the case for most consoles. Their hardware is always years behind the specs for competitors.
- Gigachad 3y agoWe have long since reached the point where top tier specs don’t matter that much. Gameplay isn’t being held back by the hardware anymore.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoOld and cheap technology like Nintendo uses doesn't work to sell VR. You gotta be at leaser somewhat cutting edge. Plus Nintendo has several failures, the Virtualboy, the Gamecube, WiiU.
- wk_end 3y agoDefinitely true of the Switch. I’m not sure if it’s true of their older hardware, though - the FC, SFC, N64 and GC were all fairly advanced for their times and still modestly priced at launch. The N64 in particular was a pile of high-end custom silicon - if they weren’t selling at a loss, they were getting one hell of a sweetheart deal from SGI and Rambus. My understanding is that the “old technology” approach guided their portable lineup more than anything, and only started to be adopted by their mainline consoles as they started to struggle there and felt they needed a different approach from Sony/MS to compete.