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Frogger on 21 May 2014
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Soundwave said:
spemanig said:
Soundwave said:
spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

 


No one interested in a handheld, especially Nintendo fans, is going to buy a $160 periferal to play it on a TV. That will sell less. And I never said it was a "PS4 killer." In fact, it won't be. It won't need to be. It'll be a cheaper Nintendo console meant to cater to Nintendo gamers. Nintendo will create more IPs catering towards a western audience and have a self sustaining ecosystem. It will strive off Nintendo's fans and be more profitable for it, while gaining new fans. They will invest heavily in creating multiple western first party studios and they will expand business that way. Just like Disney, just like Apple, and just as they said they would.


So a sub-PS4 console for $300 released when the PS4 is probably $300 (perhaps less) is going to appeal to .... who? Outside of the same Nintendo fan that buys every Nintendo console? 

$160-$170 to start could eventually be $99.99 ... if I meant I could play Nintendo games in 1080P on my TV, I'd be willing to bet such a device would probably in the end outsell the Wii U and GCN at least. 

I get the want for a more powerful Nintendo machine and for Nintendo to double down on making all these cool new Western exclusives ... but honestly I think we know deep down, Nintendo is not thinking the same thing. 

Mac and iPhone are completely disparate platforms ... I can't run BioShock Infinite from my Mac on my iPad, not even close. Most programs don't translate back and forth. I think there will be MORE than 2 hardware types, Iwata has raised this possibility twice now, probably a handheld, a tablet, a microconsole, maybe even something else all playing the same games. 


People who haven't gotten a new system yet. And the way the PS4 is selling, it won't get a price drop for a long time. You cut your price when you're loosing sales.

No one else thinks like you. No one's going to pay even $50 to stream their handheld games onto their TV. This isn't a "want." More powerful hardware sells more in this day. If the Wii U launched two years earlier and without the gamepad, it would be doing exponencially better than it is on literally all fronts.

I'm not talking about playing games on the ipone and mac. You can't do that because there isn't a mouse and keyboard on the iphone. I'm talking about why people by an iphone. Music and apps. Iphone apps mostly work on the mac and vice versa. There are exclusive things that give both value, but they have a symiotic relationship like the new consoles will. No tablet or micro console except maybe in China.