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Soundwave on 17 May 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

I genuinely do think the Wii U tablet is a neat device, but all things considered, I think it simply was the wrong idea at the wrong time and is too cost prohibitive of a controller with a whole bunch of issues (ie: having 2 per console is going to be a rarity).

I think a compartively specced Nintendo platform with a full year headstart and the Wiimote + Pro controller as the main controllers would beat Sony.

It would be like the PS2/GCN all over again, only difference being the PS2 would belong to Nintendo this time and Sony would be in the role of the GameCube.

So how much would it cost? $350 without a game?

The main problem that remains though is that you assume Nintendo would have gotten every third party multiplatform game with such a console. Also, for its first year the console would have shared its multiplatform games with the 360 and PS3, thus many of the Wii U's current problems would exist in a similar way for this hypothetical Nintendo console. Expensive, not enough exclusive content, people holding out to see what Sony and Microsoft will bring to the table.

I think $350 would be reasonable, sure. By the time the PS4/720 come out, they could comfortably slide it down $299.99 and be probably $100, even $200 cheaper.

A 7770 AMD GPU is 1.2 TFLOP and is like $80-$90 retail. Slap 4 overclocked Broadway cores to that and you have a system that could basically run any PS4/720 game in 720p at least. It wouldn't be able to fit in a tiny little box like Nintendo would want (it would maybe have to be the size of the original NES for instance -- the horror!) and it would consume more electricity, but who cares. Power consumption could be brought down over the years anyway with die shrinks.

Any scenario is going to have some challenges, that's the nature of competetion. But I think this type of system would've secured Nintendo a much more comfortable future than where they're at now, where they're stuck with an expensive controller that the general public is not responding to in the same way as the Wiimote (which was a predictable result -- you're pushing your luck if you think you could win the lottery twice).