padib said:
Read the transcript. It goes way beyond account unification. The systems are going to be brothers, in essence sharing a unified API much like Unity, and the OS will be largely one a port of the other, they will be symbiotic. What that means is that all Nintendo's internal dev firepower can be concentrated on one single platform. Nintendo basically wins and it's a no-contest. They simply cannot lose in that scenario. |
ps4/vita are "like brothers" in the way they are describing things. iwata specifically cited apple's approach and even with apple, apps have seperate releases between iphone and ipad. it will be relatively easy to port back and forth but it still won't be effortless.
this is important because of 3rd parties, if they have to add even a little bit of extra effort they won't be happy. having to create 1.2 games instead of 1 to support both sides of this unified platform is 20% too much effort.
so if they don't garner 3rd parties than it's up to nintendo. even with all of nintendo on this one unified platform i still don't think they can make enough game to be viewed as relavant.
throw on top of that, sony is launching ps now soon and MS is strongly rumored to have their own service. years from now that will be a decent chunck of the gaming market. by no means 100% but even if it ~30% that's 30% of the market nintendo isn't getting. they will be, once again, a generation behind the competition.
i don't know who is going to win gen 9,... but if this is nintendo's approach i'd say they are out of the running.
