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Soundwave on 04 March 2015
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ZarskiSold said:
Soundwave said:

It woudn't be streaming, take the streaming stuff of the Nvidia product out, I'm just talking about mobile tech. I'm talking about the handheld itself being able to run ports of even PS4 games (scaled down) if a developer really wanted to do it. 

I get that but convince why should any one buy that if they can game PS games on their tablets/phones and actuall moible games ?  wiiu could run a lot of games, but well you know how it is.

So why will it change for the next nintendo hardware, why will non nintendo fans buy this ?


Because a lot of people will buy the successor to the 3DS no matter what. Even if Nintendo's standing in the portable space has declined, they're still likely good for 50 million portables alone. Throw in 10-15 million for the home variant. 

That's 65 million systems that could theoretically run even PS4 ports for play in the portable space.

With ALL of Nintendo's developer backing behind one platform ... not split between Wii U/3DS like it is today (so not nearly as many release droughts and more game diversity). 

Put that all together and I think you would see even a fair bit of third party support, perhaps the most Nintendo has gotten since the SNES days honestly. 60+ million systems is nothing to sneeze at, especially Japanese devs would likely support it like crazy. 

It's a much better scenario for third parties regarding Nintendo than what exists today -- either you make a game for the Wii U, currently sitting at a crappy 10 million install base, growing painfully slowly, and really can't match up with the PS4/X1, or the 3DS which is much better at 50 million but can only run PS2-level graphics, so you can't really port anything from your portfolio that isn't like 15 years old, and that doesn't have much appeal to many devs either.