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I know that is just hypothetical stuff, but hardware doesn't work that with nowadays styleDreamcast 2.
Let me elaborate:
- Draconian quality control by the platform holder, no game releases in an unfinished/broken state or without conforming to certain min fps standards
- Very limited online capabilities, certaintly NOT used to "patch" games after release
- Cartridges or discs, games are read entirely from the physical media - no installations
- SEGA style hardware design
- Highly marketable price point, power is not that important (1080/60 is enough)
- Lots of unique, exclusive software titles only playable on the device
- MTX doesn't exist on this platform, no gambling or anything remotely similar (addons and dlc are OK)
- Solution for light gun games on modern TV sets
- games have so much code that a "draconian quality control" would be like a year at least for AAA games. The best solution is actually having less AAA games, to the focus more on the big projects and having a better direction with it. Nintendo is basically the best to base on this thing
- patching games are a necessity, the problem is that publishers said that is a rule. "Do the thing and fix later". We have bugs and shit back in the day, and guess what? Games got updated versions from time to time, we just didn't noticed because everything was released without notice - Ocarina of Time have
- installation is a rule nowadays because the way the machines works. It's impossible to run a game from the disc because it needs a drive that goes as fast as an SSD to put the game on the RAM. If people change the disc media, like a super bluray that reads 500mb/s, it's fine. Cartridges on other hand can have the architecture changed if the console itself is capable of (like the N64 - not sure about the Switch since is not really a cartridge)
- 1080p/60 is not enough, only fine today. In 10 years, probably won't be. Still, games are surprises and every world could be different even in the same engine. REmake 4 on PS4 is ugly as hell, and it was basically with everything that RE7 has it, but since RE4 is way bigger and faster, it's a whole different beast
- Microtransactions are publishers doing their inside job. It's not a matter of machine or the company that makes, but market
- Light gun is not a console thing, but a TV thing. Still, the solution already have for modern TVs. Have you heard about the Wii?