How would Nintendo Fusion work?

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

the_dengle said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

So, the way it works is that you will have two platforms with similar architecture, just the handheld one will be less powerful than the console one! What that will do is significantly decrease development time while increasing the amount of games output cause instead of teaching developers two different types of coding with two different architecture, they only have to teach them one and it should simplify game development for the respective platforms. 

This would put it dangerously close to the Vita-PS3 relationship. It's a lot more likely than other suggestions I've seen though.

It's already pretty much confirmed that the next handheld/home console pair will have similar operating systems. I wonder how that will affect Nintendo's output -- will there only be one Mario Kart game, shared between the two? What other games will be shared?

I really don't think it will be like that ps3-vita model cause that model clearly doesn't work and I am sure Nintendo knows this... If you have the same game on two systems, it will cripple the sales of at least one of them cause it doesn't offer any reason for the people to get both platforms and in Nintendo's case, I think it will cripple the console sales which I doubt they want to do since gaming is their only business. I truly think they will continue the model of having exclusive versions of the games on both platforms like MK7 vs MK8 and 3d Land vs 3d World cause it gives people incentive to buy both platforms cause the games are different enough apart from just graphics to justify the purchase.

So, if they have the same architecture, what it will do is speed up development time drastically compared to what they have now so they can output more games for both platforms and they dont have to spend time teaching developers the kinks of both since they can just teach them one and the coding/instruction set will work for both. But the best advantage of this will be is for the third parties cause for third party games, it will make porting piss easy cause all they should have to do is take the console version downgrade the graphics enough so that it will run on the handheld version

It would actually hurt handheld sales way more than console. I know a lot of folks who only by 3ds because of all the games. If they could get all those games plus nintendos console games in one console they'd stick just with the console. I think at least half of 3ds sales have almost nothing to do with portability. They are buying the handheld despite having no desire in handheld gaming but are buying it just for the games. Handheld and consoles would be more evenly sold in this senario but you;d have a lot of people buying both because both and now more desirable than they were before.