| Soundwave said: Mr. Iwata did say recently that Nintendo actually wants to make *more* hardware, but just share games between the platforms (easier porting). If Nintendo actually follows through with this, I'm just curious would Nintendo fans be angry if such a scenario unfolded: - Lets say Nintendo releases a 3TFLOP console in fall 2015 or 2016 that is as powerful as a PS4 + XB1 combined. Regular controller. Really not hard as there already are PC GPUs available today that can pull this off. Aimed at perhaps giving Nintendo a shot at finishing no.2 at the end of this generation ... Sony won't be caught? But Microsoft? That's still doable I think. Nintendo waives third party licensing fees for the first year to get third parties hooked on supporting the system early, and drops their other usual BS with third parties. Basically just a PC GPU for devs, that also has Nintendo games on it, in an ecosystem controlled by Nintendo. - The same Wii U games however that you were going to get still come on the same schedule. So Zelda U still happens. Yarn Yoshi just happens. This new Nintendo console just gets ports of those games that run maybe at 1080P + full 60 fps or something. Otherwise no difference, the new Nintendo console just has a lot more third party support, but the Wii U was never going to get those games anyway. Would you be angry at Nintendo for doing something like this or would you understand that they had to make a last-ditch play to retain some kind of marketshare in the console business for the greater good of the company? Would you be upset if say a game like Mario Galaxy 3 was available on say 3 Nintendo platforms (Next-Gen Portable, New Nintendo Console, and Wii U) day 1 and consumer's could simply buy the game on which ever platform they choose? |
2015 is unreasonable. 2015 would require the system to be nearing its completion and have developers (including Nintendo) already working on it.
2016 is pushing it, but if they had started earlier this year or last year, they can conceivably do it. It just wouldn't be the best idea as it can put them enroute to SEGA's kind of ending.
I would think that if they brought out a new system, they would support the Wii U for a little before dropping it given how expensive it would be and how many developers would jump to the new system and not touch the Wii U anymore.
In the end, the only way I think this would all work out is if Nintendo plans this REALLY well and actually has something that looks like it can compete with the PS4 and XBox One. I personally don't think Nintendo's thought process is like that, so the likelihood of it happening is low to me. I think they will stick it out with Wii U for about 5-7 years. I would probably adjust this depending on how much games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and Zelda U push systems.
