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KingdomHeartsFan on 03 November 2014
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Soundwave said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:
Soundwave said:

Nintendo's next console won't be x86 based. I would bet $100 on it.

It will be an ARM mobile CPU (v8) and an AMD low-power (consumption) mobile part which will allow for Wii U quality graphics (perhaps with better lighting/shader effects and more RAM) on a handheld. The home version will be the same chip overclocked with more CPU/GPU cores and more RAM for 1080p play at home.

Even on the GameCube ... Nintendo had most of the same third party games as the XBox and PS2 ... it just didn't help. That audience is owned by Sony/MS, there's not a lot Nintendo can do to win them back. 

They need a way to expand their appeal in a different way. 

I thought this thread was about what they should do?  Not what will happen.

Even if it was x86 based ... so what? Why is the average American/British/German kid going to buy the Nintendo console over the Sony or MS console where all their friends play? The Gamecube tried this approach and failed. 

No they didn't try this approach with the GC.  The GC was not easy for third parties to port games over to.  Having Nintendo exclusives and third party games all in one box would sell their next console.  

Your approach of making games based on movies will not do anything, there is already that stigma that movie based games are bad.  You don't even suggest how to make these games good, make them in house and cut development on their first party games?  Hire big, talented third party developers that would probably cost a fortune?