#i swear steam deck sent them into crisis mode and forced the system back 2 years just not to be obsolete on arrival | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kirbyddd · 7 days ago

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i wonder if nintendo actually have a business plan for the switch 2 or if they're really just flying by the seat of their pants with "save up a few years of switch releases and hope it's enough to push a tantalizing enough first year lineup for a hardware refresh"

#i swear steam deck sent them into crisis mode and forced the system back 2 years just not to be obsolete on arrival #pray for a dual screen but every instinct says we're finally arriving at the Nintendo Iris with no Yamauchi left to stop it #iris - the terminus of innovation #the only hope is valve pressures them back into competing with interface innovation over raw power #but do they have engineers left who can do it? surely they have the labo guys around still #if they arent careful psp 3 (vita 2🤍) will eat them up even faster than the deck #i feel like an iris switch can only end in xbox-like malaise unless they go wild on peripherals to salvage it #switch is already there and has been there for years. we had like dread and then everything else has been sold on visual novelty #ever since deck rendered the platform fundamentally obsolete theyve been coasting on the default purchase mindset of their consumer base #and illusions of exclusivity in the face of cheap and superior same-gen emulation #innovation is the cure #but min-risk min-cost will say just patch up the walled garden by brute forcing emulation difficulty and rely on exclusivity sony style #ironically unemulatable interface formfactor is even cheaper than raw power & has the bonus of novelty and attracting prospective pioneers #[i wrote this like 2 weeks ago - reminded to let it out of drafts now]

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