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cfin2987@gmail.com on 28 March 2015

Just humour me, imaging we lived in a world where this was possible, as it really should be for a company with nintendos resources. 

 

What if the NX was a Nintendo created steam machine (running only steam OS and a Nintendo os) for $500 that played steams back catalog, Wii U backward compatibility with the likes of Mk8 and smash, and had exclusive rights to all new nintendo games? Valve would also prosper immensely from this with the sale of a lot of hardware running steam os, and it would save their bluses from if the steam is failed. It would also allow Nintendo to keep their image of creating family friendly games while allowing their systems to run everything else on the steam store by default.

 

Discuss. 



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Soundwave on 28 March 2015

NX = time machine that sends Reggie back to 1988 so he can rewrite the contract with Sony so that the Playstation never happens. Nintendo also buys Apple in 1997 for a few million bucks.

Ergo once Nintendo creates the NX, the current time line will change, and in the new time line all third parties will be Super Duper Ultra Nintendo exclusive. 



Skullwaker on 28 March 2015

cfin pls

although that would be sweet



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Ultrashroomz on 28 March 2015

lol

I'd get that day 1.



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Metallox on 28 March 2015
Soundwave said:

NX = time machine that sends Reggie back to 1988 so he can rewrite the contract with Sony so that the Playstation never happens. Nintendo also buys Apple in 1997 for a few million bucks.

Ergo once Nintendo creates the NX, the current time line will change, and in the new time line all third parties will be Super Duper Ultra Nintendo exclusive. 

So Apple was that cheap back then? 



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 28 March 2015

If its backwards compatible... It will use PowerPC... Steam OS and majority of the steam games run on x86... There is no way will this be backwards compatible and be a steam machine... Heck, there is 0 chance of it even being a steam machine even if it wasn't BC and I don't really feel like writing an essay as to why it won't...

But if it is... Then it still won't matter cause most games on Steam are windows only and are not on Linux/SteamOS so this wouldnt help at all and it would probably lead to greater risk of piracy



                  

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Teeqoz on 28 March 2015

Nintendo has made PC parts since when? They might as well just start making games for PC then (Windows...) and have their own marketplace for their games, where they earn every dollar from the digital sales. There's no way Nintendo would get a dollar from the sales of other games on Steam anyway.

Instead, you're proposing that they start making PC games, but only release on a fraction of the PCs in the world.



rolltide101x on 28 March 2015
Captain_Yuri said:

If its backwards compatible... It will use PowerPC... Steam OS and majority of the steam games run on x86... There is no way will this be backwards compatible and be a steam machine... Heck, there is 0 chance of it even being a steam machine even if it wasn't BC and I don't really feel like writing an essay as to why it won't...

But if it is... Then it still won't matter cause most games on Steam are windows only and are not on Linux/SteamOS so this wouldnt help at all and it would probably lead to greater risk of piracy

How in God's name would Linux lead to more piracy? A Linux user is far more likely to pay for a game than a Windows user

https://www.humblebundle.com/

Scroll to the bottom and see who pays the most....

 

OT: No, just no



cfin2987@gmail.com on 28 March 2015
Skullwaker said:

cfin pls

although that would be sweet


Can't we have some fun here?



cfin2987@gmail.com on 28 March 2015
Teeqoz said:
Nintendo has made PC parts since when? They might as well just start making games for PC then (Windows...) and have their own marketplace for their games, where they earn every dollar from the digital sales. There's no way Nintendo would get a dollar from the sales of other games on Steam anyway.

Instead, you're proposing that they start making PC games, but only release on a fraction of the PCs in the world.


No, what I'm suggesting is, it would be wonderful if this was possible and I just wanted a fun discussion. Jeeeez guys....

Anyway. If the Nintendo games could possibly run in a separate partition as such, then why not? They would only run on the NX. The addition of steam games to their console would just insure that all hardcore gamers would clamor for an NX.