thismeintiel said:
Soundwave said:
thismeintiel said:
If this is the real path Nintendo is going, they really don't read the market very well. I mean even the best case scenario sees the popularity of their handhelds lifting the home consoles by 10M+. But, that also means the lack of popularity of their home consoles is dragging down their real money maker, handhelds. In other words, not going to happen. And there are 2 really big reasons why this will happen.
First of all, the handheld market is shrinking. This is coming from someone who didn't want to believe it early this gen. But, it's true. Even the successful 3DS is going to struggle to hit 80M+. What chance does a handheld that you have to buy a home console with? Very little.
And, most importantly, the Fusion will be another Wii/Wii U in terms of power. Unless Nintendo wants to price it at $599+, since they really can't afford to have another HW taking losses at launch. This means that unless Nintendo wants an outrageously priced home/handheld system, we are looking at both systems being a little more powerful than the PS4 (maybe less powerful if they want a really low price.) That might be good enough for Nintendo fans, but it's not for the mass market. Not when the PS5 will be launching a few months to 1 year later and is probably going to be 4x-5x the power of a PS4. We're talking true CGI graphics here.
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I think you're confused about the Fusion concept.
Why would you have to buy the console to use the handheld?
You don't have to buy an iPhone to buy an iPad and get use of all the same apps.
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Depends on what rumor you listen to and how hard Nintendo wants to push the fushion idea.
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I think people are having troubles seperating a "hybrid" platform and "Fusion" platform. A "hybrid" platform would be one in which would require both sets of hardware, and I highly doubt Nintendo will do that.
There already is a Fusion platform on the market ... the Vita/Vita TV is basically it, you can buy the handheld or you can buy the home TV version. It's your choice. You can have both even, but that's not neccessary. But they both play the same games.
That said Nintendo has more drive to sell such a concept because they'd put their full software weight behind a concept (Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, Mario Kart, etc. all on one platform) so it would be far more successful.
The iPhone-iPad-iPod Touch are another example of a Fusion platform, they are all different hardware lines, but they are all related and use the same app store and run most of the same apps. Even though there are some hardware differences (ie: iPad has more RAM and sometimes a better processor) they use basically the same technology too.
