Will Sony and MS have the courage to compete with Nintendo in 2016?

[Normchacho]

padib said:

Normchacho said:

Because it wouldn't be a competitive home console. What about the console in this scenario does anything to make the people who've passed on the WiiU want to buy one? They'd still have a woefully underpowered console with little to no third party support. Everyone but dedicated Nintendo fans and parents shopping for little kids will just laugh at it and buy a Playstation, Like they did with the PS1 and PS2 and they are doing now with the PS4.

Selling the home console for $199 won't be doable. Not at launch at least. Not only do Nintendo need to pay to actually make the console, but to develop it aswell.

They'll have another gen just like this one, crappy home sales with good handheld sales. They might make more money on them, but the OP claims that they will take over the home console market and leave Sony and MS playing catch up or having to do something to counter Nintendo. Which just won't happen, neither MS nor Sony need to worry about what Nintendo does. They are, for all intents and purposes, an also ran.

There will be no such thing as home and portable markets for Nintendo anymore. That's the basic thing you're not understanding.

Why would Nintendo care how many home or portables they sell if they are essentially one unified platform? It's the games they will care about selling, as well as their new beefed-up brand.

And also ran? I think they'll be laughing their way to the bank while you're left scratching your head.

Yes there will be...If they offer a home, and a handheld console then they are going to have two seperate markets. They are going to face different competition, home console owners buy different types of games than handheld owners, they are going to have different power levels, even different target buyers. They are going to have to treat them differently and make adjustments seperatley in order to keep them sucessful. They will be seperate products.

If for next gen Nintendo only offered one console, a handheld that you could bring home, plug into your TV, pick up a seperate controller, and use as a home console, that would be a unified system (and really awesome) What they are talking about now is simply two consoles where one console only gets ports of the other consoles games. Pretty much just like they did with SSB.

Will it be cheaper for Nintendo? Sure, it's certainly cheaper to port a game than it is to make a new one. But this certainly isn't going to win them any new sales or marketshare, and it sure as hell isn't going to prompt any response from Sony or MS. it's simply a way to try and get the same amount of money in without having to put as much money out.