| Intrinsic said: Sorry to say this, but nintendo is not going to go first on the home front again. The hardcore console crowd s primarily with sony and MS right now, and if nintendo makes the mistake of going first, all sony and ms has to do is start letting rumors of their own much much more powerful future consoles leak out and that alone will stall nintendos launch. Their best bet, is to ride out the wiiU, and make sure they are there same day and date with the next consoles from sony and MS. And be at least as powerful or more powerful than those consoles before even considering whatever new gaming trend they may want to get behind. The only way they can get away with not doing any of the above and be successful, is if they somehow pull off another wii phenomenon. But you all know what they say about lightning striking twice....... |
If they are not really going to do the Fusion idea and are going to try again with a core "full size" console, then I think launching after Sony/MS would be colossally stupid.
Even day and date with Sony/MS doesn't work, I think third parties would just shun them after their putrid performance with the Wii U.
They need not only a 1 year headstart, they need a 2 year headstart IMO to build a comfortable cushion that can't be eroded overnight (like the PS4 did to the Wii U) and can build a credible userbase of hopefully 10-15 million before the other two get going.
I would suggest they push for a fall 2016 launch in that scenario, and something at least 4-6 TFLOP in horsepower so it can have the superior versions of multiplat games for a good two years. I'd also suggest they make the console easy to upgrade (ala the N64 RAM Expansion) so that the eventual PS5 coming in 2018 or so can be matched.
