| Dunban67 said: Nintendo has been teasing that the games are coming within the next 6 months or so ever since Spring of 2013- they said they would begin a consistent offering of compelling g software beginning in 2nd half 2013- Here we are in 2nd half 20014. Talking about how they will finally get the games out in 2015 - of course when 2015 gets here it will become the 2nd half of 2015 in which the games will come - At some point Nintendo may release a consistent amount of software but I'll take it seriously when/if it actually happens not because they Nintendo talks as if it is going to happen I will be very pleasantly surprised if Zelda U releases in 2015 Re unified development for Wii u and 3ds and or home console and handheld- how Will they develop for both platforms w out either making the home console suffer by to compensate for the handheld specs or the handheld suffer via parts of the game being cut out in order to handle a home console title? |
They'll just make the same game for both the portable(s) and home variant.
I don't think Nintendo has much interest in graphics far beyond the Wii U anyway ... for most Nintendo IP, they look great on the Wii U as is (Mario Kart 8) and Nintendo wouldn't be willing IMO to make a $80 million dollar Zelda game or something anyway.
By 2015/16, mobile chips will be able to provide PS3/360/Wii U level visuals, so I think what they'll do is they'll use one version for their portable and then just use the same chip for their home variant just with 2-3x as many CPU/GPU cores + double/triple the RAM. That way the games can run at say 1080P/60 fps on TV while being perhaps 540p-720p/30 fps on the road.
Using the same chips will also let them get a cheaper price on the chips, allowing for the price of the hardware to scale faster in cost.
The home console variant in this type of a setup could be extremely cheap ... perhaps like $179.99 to start with and scaled down in price to $149.99 in under a year. Also extremely small (think VitaTV/AppleTV size, maybe a bit bigger) and power efficient (sub 15 watt power consumption). I can totally see Nintendo doing this, it fits them like a glove.
If you're hoping for basically a Wii U-2 (err ... GameCube 3?) though which is slightly better than a PS4 next time out, yeah you're probably out of luck. I think Nintendo is done with the traditional home console in a lot of ways after this gen simply because there isn't enough of a market for them. If all they're going to sell is 18 million consoles without a gimmick, well they can probably sell 18-25 million of these "handheld chip in a box" consoles too, probably at a slightly higher profit margin at that without having to invest in tons of R&D costs for hardware development (as they'd just be reusing the chipset from their handheld).
