Positive Impacts From a Unified/Fusion Nintendo Platform

[phaedruss]

spemanig said:

phaedruss said:

fatslob-:O said:
Did you forget the negative impacts ?

Anyways, other than the benefit of sharing the same pool of games it will most likely end up being a negative in the long term seeing as how systems need to be differentiated in software in order to give a selling point for one system over another. A lot of people aren't very fond of Nintendo consoles compared to their handhelds in general so this only hurts Nintendo's business in general as it only gives more incentives for people to not buy a Nintendo console.

I'm not sure how. You either buy one or the other or if you really want to you buy both. If you want to have your Nintendo games on the go then you get the portable, if you want them at home you get the console, if you want both you get both. I assume there would be some kind of cross buy for both. I don't get the logic that having the same games on both platforms somehow cancels out each other or something. 

What's not to get? People buy consoles for console games and handhelds for handheld games. It has nothing to do with portability. The Vita is failing because it's trying to be a portable console. 

That's not why the Vita is failing.