"Microsoft wants to win, Nintendo needs to give up on Wii U" - Michael Pachter on Gamertag Radio

[uran10]

Cobretti2 said:

uran10 said:
Soundwave do you really think nintendo will ditch the wii U so early? They've already said they will stick with the hardware for a long time to come. 2016 is far too early for them to launch. Everytime I see someone saying a launch before 2018 for nintendo's 9th gen console I just think how stupid it is.

Nintendo needs to continue to support the wii U. Nintendo is not going to screw over their fans by dropping support for the Wii U early. Its gonna be 5+ years. I'm saying about a 6-8 years for wii U. The console just started selling for a profit so why ditch it for something else that will sell at a loss first so quickly? Nintendo will stick with the Wii U for a while.

5 years is a long time in a modern world. people change mobiles every 6-12months. I do not see a reason why people can't upgrade their consoles earlier.

 

What I would like to see with the next gen console since it will definetly launch much sooner than the competition is a modular approach. Where you can swap out or add additiona; parts (i.e ram, video card and cpu). This way they could provide a console that is cheap and reasonably powerful for the launch and when the competition launches simply offer a module addon. For example a ram expansion could be bundled and sold with few of your popular franchises like Mario Kart or Mario Brothers, etc.. That way people will feel like they getting a cheap upgrade. NOTE: by addon I don't mean expansion packs that are slower but rather provide a slot to stick this thing in which would run at the same speed.

The best part with this approach is that game engines will be even more scalable and upgrading would be purely your choice. 

Call me crazy but some mobile manufacturers are already looking at modular approaches for future solutions. 

I don't really have an opinion on what you want for the next gen system I just mainly care about the games.However when it comes to the 5 year thing its not neccessarily true. Technology isn't advancing as fast as it was during the Nes-Wii era. While it is still moving fast it isn't going through the leaps and bounds it was which is going to lead to longer generations. At this point in time I think it should be a mimimum of 6 years on the market before you start talking about next gen. This gen isn't even 2 years old yet and people are already saying nintendo needs to jump into the 9th gen? That makes no sense. None. This isn't the mobile industry.