Nintendo has moved beyond specs

The official unveiling of the Switch 2 was an incredibly assured infinitesimal for Nintendo. It was little and lacking astir wholly successful details. There was nary price, nary merchandise date, and nary confirmed games extracurricular of a Mario Kart tease. The 2 successful the sanction implied a bigger and amended Switch, but erstwhile it came to the however — the chips that volition powerfulness the device, the surface that volition marque Zelda and Mario look large — Nintendo deemed it wasn’t important capable to stock close away.

And it’s right: dissimilar the remainder of the industry, Nintendo has carved retired a way wherever specs nary longer matter.

It wasn’t ever this way. Previous Nintendo consoles were sold, arsenic their contemporaries were, connected horsepower. The Super Nintendo was a more-powerful NES, portion the N64’s processor was deemed truthful important that the strategy was named aft it. But things started to alteration astir the clip of the GameCube. Nintendo had experienced a dependable diminution successful console income implicit consequent generations; portion the NES and Famicom sold much than 60 cardinal units, that was down to conscionable implicit 20 cardinal for the GameCube. At the aforesaid time, Nintendo’s nonstop contention had changed significantly. After getting a tast …

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