Why can't Nintendo just make a traditional home console?
I'll copy paste my post from the thread you made about this:
Let's say Nintendo (or Nintendo's hardware engineering team, etc.) takes the suggestion "should make a powerful console" at face value.
Ok. Two paths:
(a) Make a stationary box with similar hardware specs to PS5 and Series X. It's a dedicated home console priced $400 - $500. Cool, but Nintendo isn't going to abandon their portable line. I can guarantee they won't. So they're back to supporting a home console and dedicated handheld, the handheld in this case being... the Switch. So if Nintendo's 'portable' and 'home' development teams are unified, are these two boxes going to play the same games?
In one scenario, Nintendo makes a home console while continuing to supporting the current Switch, and they share the same library. In that case, how powerful can the dedicated console be, if the games being ported to it also have to work on the Switch? The Switch is still doing well and Nintendo will not abandon it to shift resources to an unproven dedicated home console. So Nintendo's games will not push the home console to its limits. That's fine - there can still be third-party exclusives that skip the base Switch. That's sweet but is this third-party support worth the investment of engineering this dedicated device? And how big is the audience they expect to capture, considering the Switch is portable, cheaper, and also plays Nintendo games and many third-party games on a television?
... or are they going to have entirely different architectures? So now Nintendo is back to having to develop for multiple platforms, except now it's multiple
HD platforms. Can't see this happening so I'll discount this possibility.
Or... will Nintendo release both a more powerful Switch,
and an even more powerful dedicated home console with similar architecture that plays the same games at higher fidelity? If there's a more powerful Switch then why spend any R&D on the dedicated home console, especially when the former is a proven and successful concept
and can be used as a home console? That's the catch... if out of thin air, Nintendo produces a Switch Home that is as powerful as a PS5 and has third-party support, of course I'd buy it, but in reality it'd be a huge investment that IMO is better spent on a more powerful Switch with DLSS.
That would lead into the second path which is:
(b) Make a more powerful Switch, only, while continuing to support the base Switch and its variants
... which we kind of know they're doing already. Even if you choose to ignore the Nvidia leak, it's a safe assumption. If you're worried about sufficient power for third-party ports, the Series S exists. It obviously can't be as powerful as that, but I think it can get within striking distance.