New Nintendo Platform Teased at Conference, "NX"

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PxlStorm said:

the_dengle said:

PxlStorm said:
I've just lost all my trust in Nintendo. This concept will either be at best mediocre or completly terrible. I'm sure it'll be option 2.

Er, the concept of a third pillar? Because the last time they made a third pillar it was far from mediocre.

The concept of moving resources to smartphone (and apperently PC) gaming. It will hurt them badly.

If the NX game platform is in fact the Fusion Console/Handheld then the new system actually frees up developer resources, because Nintendo won't have to port games between either platform. For games like Mario Kart, Smash and any others that would have been made on an indvidual case basis Nintendo and any of their partners only have to make one game, it would nigh on automatically transfer between both platforms, with some basic optimizations and scaling back of features making it work for the handheld.

Freeing up resources means Nintendo could make handheld and PC games if they want to get into developing games for those areas of the market.

The home console will get more games if Fusion is a thing, depending on the kind of controller the home console has it could run any of the handheld games and likewise for the design of the handheld sharing games that would traditionally be made for the console. Considering the level of output on 3DS games vs Wii U, the latter would be swimming in games within the 1st year of release if Nintendo had been able to choose that kind of an approach.

 

The Fusion platform also means Nintendo can essentially have one marketing campaign, for 2 platforms. Provided they clearly define that they're selling 2 systems, but that games will work across both of them, people can just take or leave which system they like or they can buy both, if Nintendo decides to bundle the systems together in one box for a reasonable price. There may even be benefits to this, like a similar crossplay to local multiplayer, only using the Handheld away from home. All Fusion handheld and home console gamers could play together.

Basically it's all a plus for Nintendo and a very clever idea, would definitely make Nintendo stand out and I'm sure their target audience would love the idea. The only issue I can see is whether Nintendo can do this and get the 3rd party audience back, maybe this will push them further away from those publishers, besides the ones that Nintendo pays to develop exclusives for their platforms.