zorg1000 said:
And rightly so, it's an awful idea that will lose them a ton of money and isn't gauranteed to benefit them either. The earliest that Nintendo could come out with a powerful new console is holiday 2016. By that time there will be something like 50 million PS4's sold and 30 million XB1's both costing something like $299 and having hundreds of games that appeal to mainstream gamers with large established online communities. Nintendo wouldn't simply be able to make a PS4/XB1 level system, they would need a PS5/XB4 level system or else they are basically releasing Wii U2. This type of device would likely be $400+. Will the 80 million or so people who just bought a PS4/XB1 within the last 3 years be ready to buy a new $400 console already? Probably not. Will people looking for a new console in 2017 and beyond choose the most expensive console, with the smallest number of games and a small online community? Probably not. So who will buy this console? Probably the same people who bought a Wii U for its exclusive titles. |
They had a window to release a high end console in 2011-12 that could've taken advantage of Sony/MS' long PS3/360 lifecycles ... but Nintendo as per usual missed the bus and decided to bet everything (again) on a gimmick controller.
At this point now, they're so weakened in the console space that they really don't have many options to begin with. Basically collapsing their console division into their portable division so they can at least provide an adequete flow of games is really their only feasible option now I think.
