kitler53 said:
Mr Khan said:
kitler53 said:
i don't want to put too much thought into this cause this is all just rumors and speculation at this point...but i'm failing to see who would want to buy a wii HD at this point.
so yes, the multiplats that the ps360 get could appear on this nintendo console. i and 100ish M others already have a ps360. wii only owners could upgrade i suppose but if i were an upgrader and the wii HD cost the same or more than the ps360 i'd go with the consoles with a gigantic back catalog instead of the one with only a few game.
which basically means nintendo has to have another "gimmick" to distinguish itself. if the vitality sensor and the 3DS's current sales are anything to go by -- finding that gimmick that makes the entire market excited for a product isn't all that simple or assured. can nintendo do it again?
...and if nintendo overshoots the ps360 i'm not sure publishers would follow nintendo -- not without MS and sony also joining so third parties can release multi-plats instead of exclusives.
i just don't know ... i wouldn't want to have to make the choices nintendo has to make at this point.
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I won't deny it's an uphill fight, but Nintendo can be up to the task, so long as they bring the same A-game they brought to the Wii early on, and bring it consistently. With third party parity and their ability to corner the casual market, plus powerful multi-appeal first party titles, the only legitimate threats that would stand in their way are the behemoth of Halo and the service of Xbox Live, and Xbox Live could easily lose its advantage in a console transition, so long as Nintendo's online service is adequate enough that people can easily play with their friends (though i doubt Nintendo will be aggressive enough to make Live irrelevent, they could, because Live is dependent on the "all my friends have it so i should get it," effect, and in a console transition, that factor becomes a nonissue)
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but right now nintendo appears to be the only one in transition and they are apparently transitioning to the same level that ps360 are already at hardware horsepower-wise. to me that means nintendo has everything to loose with not much room for gain. what is going to motivate any ps360 owners to buy this new nintendo console if 95% of the console's library is multiplats that are already on the console they already own.
i mean, i might by it cause i'm a sucker for video games and all. but for the masses, nintendo is going to have to come up with one hell of a killer app to get them to be mult-current gen console owners.
i don't know ... maybe i'm being to pessimistic. personally i think you're too optimistic. i think i'm just going to fall back on my first point -- until nintendo actually shows their hand we're just speculating which doesn't really mean much.
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Nintendo's movement will force transition for the other 2, or at least faster than they would have liked, otherwise the other two would get caught in the same position later on (if they naturally intended to launch in 2015, that's a 3-year headstart for Nintendo, and suddenly the shoe is on the other foot)
Unless Sony and Microsoft hope what you're asserting, that Nintendo will move themselves into irrelevance by doing this, and they can just sit back, do whatever, and keep ignoring them
