| Nuvendil said: Until the Fusion exists, I predict it will sell 0 units because I don't think it will exist. Iwata said the platforms would be "like brothers" as in similar development pipelines allowing for fluidity within teams and select cross platform titles. Not that the two will share one identity and one library and essentially one set of specs. Mark my words, the handheld and console will still have their own identities and their own libraries with some overlap where it makes sense (Kirby games, NSMB games, etc). The console will be the more powerful by a country mile, just as always. What they are doing is making the development similar between them so that they can maximize their company's efficiency in terms of development. They are also probably working to make as many of their engines as scalable as possible so that they can limit the number of tool sets that they need to learn. That's the end game here. Not what is essentially one device for handheld and console (or two essentially identical devices with the exact same library) |
Actually Iwata said in the same quote that they must adopt the same ecosystem that Apple has for the iPhone and iPad (which you can also say are "brother" devices).
Also how sure are you that Nintendo even wants a "massively" more powerful console? Look at this gen, most companies are struggling to get anything released on time, and these are companies with years of HD experience. These PS4/XB1 games are likely even higher budget than anything before to boot.
I think it's very likely Nintendo says "thanks, but no thanks" to that proposition, I don't think anyone at Nintendo is licking their chops to work with even more powerful hardware that will lead to longer and more expensive development times.
There's no reason the home variant can't be more powerful though ... it could be the same games, but the home version runs them at a nice, clean 1080P resolution, whereas the handheld can run the same game just at 720p or maybe 960x540 resolution. Maybe the console version has a few extra effects, but nothing major.
That sorta thing.
