Sitting here, four months before a new Nintendo console potentially appears, I’m filled with two very incongruous emotions. On the one hand I’m practically bursting with elation – a new Nintendo console! One that doesn’t rely solely on motion controls! Stuffed with HD graphics! Open-world Zelda!
Then there’s the dread – a wall of seemingly insurmountable panic that a company whose pedigree represents the core of my gaming childhood, could drive themselves out of both the handheld and the console market if the Nintendo Switch fails to compete in a world dominated by PS4.
And Nintendo really is betting a great deal of its future plans on Switch. Nintendo’s handheld output has always been a strong branch of its brand, but it’s now bringing it in from the fringes and combining it with the extra power of a home console.
Lest we forget Sega – now a publisher, but once a mighty console giant in its own right – which hedged its bets on the forward-thinking Dreamcast before it failed spectacularly, driving them out of hardware development forever.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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