Nintendo has pulled the Ultimate middle finger to their core fans for the last 3 generations.

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naruball said:

maxleresistant said:

and people, stop saying fans don't care and still buy the consoles/games.

Are we on VGchartz or what? those 3DS/WiiU sales are not great.

And when the rumors comes, eveybody Nintendo fans is like "yeah, it's going to have more power than a PS4, it's going to kick ass" and when someone say "well those Nintendo consoles have shit specs", they're like "specs don't matter". Let's be true to ourselves, specs matters, they always mattered, they mattered for the Wii and DS too, they had different specs, 2 screens with one touch screen? A motion sensored controller? All those were cutting edge.

Now again, not saying the NX should be a powerhouse like a Scorpio, that would be stupid. Nintendo needs to stay cheap, that 250$ 3DS and 350$ WiiU idea, wasn't a great one. But well it's not hard to make a 300 $ console with the same specs as a One and a nice gimmick for miyamoto and the casuals to be happy. Just don't put EVERYTHING on the gimmick like the way overpriced gamepad that was barely used, or the 3D of 3DS that was well, turned off by evrybody

So, let's do it

Impossible. The narrative will keep changing no matter what.

Makes you wonder, though. If graphics don't matter why not just keep releasing games for wiiu?

Of course graphics matter. Sales show it. People getting excited over graphics in various (NInty) threads show it (see "wow, look at Mario Galaxy running in x emulator").

No need to pretend around here. I mean it's fine to accept your favourite company's business model (I accepted Sony's approach with vita), but acting like you don't care? Come on now.

I think you are misinterpreting what people mean when they say graphics dont matter. They arent saying that graphics should never move forward or that power shouldnt increase, rather they are saying that having the most cutting edge or most graphically intense games are not a requirement for making high quality or visually appealing games.

Despite Wii being significantly weaker than PS3/360, Nintendo and others were able to release great & beautiful games, same goes for Wii U despite being much weaker than PS4/XBO.

Despite not being in a spec battle with Sony/MS, Nintendo still had a huge performance boost from Wii to Wii U and we will likely see a similar upgrade from Wii U to NX.