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freebs2 on 06 January 2015
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BossPuma said:
Guitarguy said:
BossPuma said:


In 2 years the tech for more powerful and advanced consoles will be much cheaper. I think it would be hard for nintendo to make a weaker system than the ps4 at that point in time.


Not weaker, but not significantly more powerful. Nintendo have never been known to persue outright power, not since the SNES at least. Just my opinion.

They must be learning from their mistakes with the Wii U, its evidence enough that they are having a need to make a new console in the first place (if the rumors of a 2016 release are to be believed.) I would think that they would focus on power to gain 3rd party dev support.

Focusing on hi-end graphics wouldn't solve a thing. In the end, 3rd party developers are driven by profitability before graphical capability.

Let's assume Nintendo launches this hi-end console by late 2016, why would the average customer buy it? By that time Ps4 and Xbox One will have a huge library of games, they will be still active for years to come and, with price cuts, they will likely cost the same or less than this new N console.

At the same time, since Ps4/Xbone will already have a 50-60million userbase so, in a vicious cycle, Nintendo will only receive a marginal part of Ps4/Xbone support driving average customers away form the console, driving 3rd party support further away.