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kitler53 on 23 November 2013
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Mr Khan said:
kitler53 said:
Mr Khan said:
Replacing Wii U early would be the end of Nintendo in the home console market. Nobody really remembers what killed Sega, do they?

apt as always.

 

i'm not sure what nintendo ought to do in the home console biz.  i don't think nintendo can recreat the sucess that was the wii and their home consoles will continue to be a financial burden.  i also don't think nintendo can do well as a third party studio(s) for MSony because they rely heavily on reinventing their franchises on new hardware.    ...maybe sony/ms would consider a partnership that allowed nintendo intimate access to their hardware to allow nintendo to create well integrated gaming periphrial that they could sell/make games for.   politically,.. probably not.

but cutting the wiiiU off early can really only hurt nintendo. 

Soundwave and I have been on the same wavelength about what the ideal solution is: Google partnership, hybrid console-handheld that can work like Chrome TV, being a console when you want it to be and handheld when you need it to be. Mobile graphics tech is accelerating such that they could easily match or slightly best PS4 when it's time to retire 3DS and Wii U in 2017 or so. Google  partnership allows them to get an OS that the everyman knows, and Google won't care about hardware so Nintendo gets the hardware control they've always demanded, thus it can be a full-scale android device without undermining Nintendo's creative control, allows them to retreat from the console space without actually surrendering anything, and keeps them running as a handheld, and Nintendo's software teams will no longer have to be divided, since it's all for one purpose.


umm..

ps4 level tech shunk down to the size appropriate for a handheld will, even in 2017, be quite expensive.   doable i'm sure but still in the $300+ range which is quite a lot for a handheld.  the vita at $250 was sold at a loss at launch and still didn't quite match the ps3 specs.  so either nintendo will have to have the most compelling game ever created OR support other stuff:  phone calls, google's app store, GPS, MP3, camera, and all the other that is standard and will be standard in a smartphone device by 2017. 

if they support all that other stuff then it could be a really cool device.  ..but nintendo doesn't seem too willing to split their focus on all that extra stuff.  i think that would be quite a shift in their thinking that i'm just not so sure nintendo has the kind of leadership willing to make that kind of an adjustment.

a cool idea that i would be willing to take a sizable bet doesn't happen.