Rainbird said:
jarrod said:
Rainbird said:
jarrod said:
Hardware design is fully integrated into software design though, that's core to Nintendo and core to their recent resurgence. Systems like DS or Wii wouldn't have happened with the scenario you're proposing, and it literally runs counter to Nintendo's own R&D.
People from Sega have commented before on how much turmoil their development went through in the 3rd party shift, Naka and Suzuki especially iirc, and how that loss of intimate know how with the hardware fundamentally damaged their R&D process and demoralized their teams. When literally EVERY company who goes out of hardware "fails to adapt", maybe you should start questioning why exactly that is?
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If Nintendo is to shift to this model, they're not going to lose that intimate knowledge of the hardware though.
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Sure they will, unless this theoretical "games forum" allows them to design it.
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It allows them to give input on the design and follow the process. If they want to, they can follow the entire R&D process, either by having someone of theirs working as a part of this R&D team, or by reading up on reports about the hardware as the R&D comes along. Or both.
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Problem is, this won't ever happen. The realities of media forums is that there's always competition and infighting as to format specification and royalty structure... even the DVD forum couldn't hold it together for the next gen, and we got a new format war.
Nintendo's already said they're not interested in that, and given their history, their philosophy and their culture, it's pretty safe to say they never will be. And why should they considering how successful they are... what does Nintendo gain exactly in your scenario but less control over their own destiny?
