Underpowered hard ware is easy to price competitively and consumers either dont know or dont care that its a worse platform for games because they just want to play some mario, entertain their kids and do it on a budget.
They tried it with the GameCube and Wii u and both consoles bombed. They went underpowered with the Wii and switch and both times haves paid off by breaking record sales.
Both the Wii and Switch heavily marketed their stupid gimmicks though. Their success has nothing to do with being underpowered, it's about the gimmicks.
I don't disagree, but from Nintendo's point of view why invest more into hardware when they can succeed greatly with what they have? Wii was a GameCube and switch is hardly more than a Wii u.
>and Wii u
That was a 8th gen console competing against PS4 you moron, it was literally released only one year before. If the Wii U was released around 2006 or 2007 then you might've had a point.
Why would they? All it would do is make their games take more time and money to develop and their hardware more expensive while the sales would probably be the same.
because they have the portable market on lockdown and it would be fricking stupid to give that up for any reason
putting top of the line hardware into portables is extremely expensive, and nintendo has had a fairly steady track record for making beautiful games on underpowered hardware
Underpowered hard ware is easy to price competitively and consumers either dont know or dont care that its a worse platform for games because they just want to play some mario, entertain their kids and do it on a budget.
Same reason they don't invest in quality gameplay: morons will buy it by the millions anyways.
A. Cheap hardware
B. Experienced, competent art departments
Because they know people will buy it anyway.
They tried it with the GameCube and Wii u and both consoles bombed. They went underpowered with the Wii and switch and both times haves paid off by breaking record sales.
Both the Wii and Switch heavily marketed their stupid gimmicks though. Their success has nothing to do with being underpowered, it's about the gimmicks.
I don't disagree, but from Nintendo's point of view why invest more into hardware when they can succeed greatly with what they have? Wii was a GameCube and switch is hardly more than a Wii u.
I don't disagree, but this is Nintendo we're talking about. They're not exactly up to date
Nintendo relies solely on gimmicks and IPs to sell their consoles. That's literally it.
>and Wii u
That was a 8th gen console competing against PS4 you moron, it was literally released only one year before. If the Wii U was released around 2006 or 2007 then you might've had a point.
Who cares. console gaming is already a scam
because it literally doesn't matter. all graphics will age into looking like shit eventually
Why would they? All it would do is make their games take more time and money to develop and their hardware more expensive while the sales would probably be the same.
because they have the portable market on lockdown and it would be fricking stupid to give that up for any reason
putting top of the line hardware into portables is extremely expensive, and nintendo has had a fairly steady track record for making beautiful games on underpowered hardware
Because they want to sell their consoles at lower prices while still making a profit off of each unit sold.
I dont want top of the line graphics. I want fun.
Why bother? Their games remain gorgeous no matter the generation because they put effort into art direction. Not sure why pokemon is on there, though.