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Vincoletto on 24 August 2014
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:
Vincoletto said:
Nintendo should release a new one in 2,5 years from now, on 2016 Holidays.
It should be on par with PS4/XBONE or even more powerfull as the components that we have on those will be much cheaper in 2 years.
Also it should be backwards compatible with WiiU.
This way you could have third party companies back since the development would be the same for SOny/Microsoft and we still would have amazing first party games from Nintendo.


The problem with this idea is said console will be stuck in the same predicament the Wii U is ... no one wants a Wii U because they already have a PS3/360.

By fall 2016 most people will own a PS4 or XBox One, and not only that but both systems will have hundreds of games available for them whereas the hypothetical Nintendo console will be starting with like 12-16 games at best. 

In other words, it won't be any different from whats happening with the Wii U, only the most die-hard Nintendo fans will buy it. 

No one will care about Wii U backwards compatibility either, lol. 

Not same, Wii U came out at end of PS3/Xbox360 era and just one year before XboxOne/PS4, next Nintendo home console will probably come at middle of XboxOne/PS4 life span and few years before next cycle of consoles.

It will be very different from what's happening to Wii U, Wii U had many problems, starting with bad console name and bad marketing, games drought, not good hardware for 3rd party developers...and so on, next Nintendo console probably will not have that problems and will have fixed Wii U problem from start, like a unified account.

But for all that I would say that 2017 is more realistic for Nintendo home console than 2016, new handheld and home console will have havy integration, and next handheld will probably come out in 2016.

Yep, thats exactly why I said 2016 holidays. It will be the middle of this generatin, and also the console could be released at a good price because components will be cheaper. So it could be a 299 product. 

The first problem with third parties will be solved, which is having a console that is one generation behind the rest, making it harder and more expensive to develop, lets say, GTA 6 (you know there will be one).

The second problem with third parties is harder to solve, which is trust. Nintendo screwed up so many times with third parties that is hard to imagine them caring for nintendo again. But everybody likes money, so maybe nintendo could give them a special treatment, with higher shares of the games ssales for example.

Then, after that, nintendo should start AGAIN working on a new console to make sure it will be released at the same time and power of the next generation, probably around 2020-2021.

Or just wait 6-7 years more with WiiU until 2020-2021, which is unlikely