If smartphones had better gaming OSes, and native games that weren't F2P garbage, then perhaps.

As far as throttling for temperature goes, it might be a little conservative, but I think they left some overhead for possibilities like playing outside on a warm day. I do think they could've made the system a little thicker and improved airflow that way, allowing for higher clock speeds.

 

So Nintendo had to pull out 8mm processes or graphene chips or other unexisting tech out of their ass? The Switch already heats like hell with an underclocked X1.

 

the switch wasnt made in 2 days, sure they were available but the switch probably was in testing phases and such long before they were available at all.

 

That's called famboyism... or being royal to just one brand, just like the poeple who defend apple's shit

 

Indeed, the MSRP of $299 was already seen as way too expensive by a great majority of people. Releasing a console only $50 more expensive would've been financial suicide. I still see people who are still saving for a Switch, or buy a 3DS instead because of the price.

 

I'm kinda scared for the Switch. It's giving me Wii vibe where it sold a lot, but it ended up missing out on a lot of games or got inferior versions of games. The Wii ended up being one of my least used consoles.

 

The Wii is part of the reason 3rd parties don't trust Nintendo.

 

The PS2 model is only possible following the extremely successful PS1.

The Switch was coming off of a total flop in the Wii U.

Your inability to look at this objectively from Nintendo's perspective and instead live in an ideal world where finances don't matter but only hardware specs do really limit my ability to take you seriously.

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I respectfully disagree. Third parties were lining up to get in on the gravy train which was the Wii with shoddy motion controlled ports.

Developers and third parties will always flock to wherever the money is.

Nintendo realistically had two options post Wii-U.

1. The Switch
2. A proper home console with no gimicks and pure grunt.

Given that option 2 would have likely been destroyed by the XBOX one X, they made the right decision. Given the general populations lack of faith and money to invest in a portable system, the 299 price tag seems like now a sweet spot, when in reality it was pushing a lot of people away given the lack of great launch titles apart from BOTW.

I wish Nintendo would have waited a year or two to release the switch as it would have increased the longevity of the console with a more powerful architecture and GPU.

However I also understand Nintendo's hand was forced by just how god damn badly the Wii U was doing.