Nintendo har høstet gigantisk succes med Switch-konsollen, og lige nu lader det til at de meget vel kunne tage en større markedsandel i løbet af de næste par år. Allerede nu har konsollen sågar overhalet Xbox One i flere territorier, deriblandt Spanien og Italien.
Alligevel mener én af skaberne bag den originale Xbox-konsol ikke, at hverken Sony eller Microsoft bør lancere et lignende produkt. For nylig har Ed Fries talt lidt med Geek Wire, og her roser han Nintendo Switch.
"When I first saw it, I thought it was creative, but I wasn't sure if it was going to be successful. Some of the ideas we had actually talked about at Xbox, like having controllers you could separate and hold in each hand. I first played Zelda on the Wii U and enjoyed the game, and thought, maybe I don't need a Switch. Eventually, I buckled and got a Switch to play Mario, and I was really surprised how many different and creative ways they use the controllers, how they can be joined onto different supports, or you can separate them and hand them to another player and turn them sideways. It's something that's really won me over as a cool machine"
Alligevel mener Fries ikke at Microsoft og Sony bør kopiere Nintendos idé:
"I don't think the right thing for Microsoft or Sony to do is imitate Nintendo or try to be Nintendo. I don't think they'll succeed by being Nintendo. I think they've gotta figure out what it is that they do well and continue to do that well."
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