Quote from: Joe on July 14, 2024, 22:47:37Does it really matter what hardware the Switch came with when it was released? Nintendo has long followed Gunpei Yokoi's Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology where they use mature, cheap technology and focus more on creative ways of taking advantage of it. You could argue that the Steam Deck, ROG and Legion devices offer better hardware but they don't offer Nintendo's exclusive high quality games and neither are they 100% optimized for the hardware. Even if you can make better hardware choices, the games are what make or break every console and here it's tough to compete with Nintendo.

I quite disagree here. You can get a Steam Deck for similar prices than the switch, and the former has much more powerful hardware that was also optimised, and ALSO new when it got launched.

Does it really matter what hardware the Switch came with when it was released? Nintendo has long followed Gunpei Yokoi's Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology where they use mature, cheap technology and focus more on creative ways of taking advantage of it. You could argue that the Steam Deck, ROG and Legion devices offer better hardware but they don't offer Nintendo's exclusive high quality games and neither are they 100% optimized for the hardware. Even if you can make better hardware choices, the games are what make or break every console and here it's tough to compete with Nintendo.

Well sort of:

The "GameBoy" was surpassed by the "GameBoy Color" before the release of the "GameBoy Advance".

The "GameBoy Advance" came at first in a 'landscape' formfactor before the additional 'flip up screen' and then finally the model with a backlight.

All before the DS and then => 3DS and then updated 3DS.