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Soundwave on 10 March 2014
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Game_God said:
Soundwave said:

I don't think there will be another Nintendo home console unless Nintendo's R&D can come up with some Wiimote like miracle idea.

Rising dev costs each successive generation and Nintendo being stuck in the 15-20 million only userbase just doesn't make sense financially for them. Its expending tremendous effort on Nintendo's part to try and squeeze every drop from a very small market, I think they are done with that after the Wii U. 

So yes, I do think the QoL thing is a way for them to hedge against a possible exit from the traditional console business. Their next portable will be their main gaming platform IMO.

You must be joking, because the other option, that is you are being serious shows that you don't have the sligthest clue about Nintendo, not being rude, just stating the obvious!


I would love to see another Nintendo console, one that actually has competent specs like the SNES or N64 did for their day ... but really what I want (or what you want) doesn't mean sh*t. The business model for a Nintendo console barring a Wiimote like gimmick craze just doesn't work.

You can't expect them to keep releasing increasingly more powerful consoles for an increasingly shrinking audience ... remove the Wii craze and Nintendo's console marketshare shrinks every generation.

Lower userbase + higher dev costs at the same time ... is just a formula that Nintendo won't accept for much longer IMO. 

You can't keep making consoles just because 15 million Mario/Zelda fans say so, that's not nearly enough of an audience to justify the huge investment that launching a home console platform requires nowadays.