The Nintendo NX and Mobile Press Conference: What was said, what wasn't, what to take away

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Shadow1980 said:

Soundwave said:

People want Netflix, Hulu, NFL/NBA/NHL streaming, online store access, maybe Twitter/Facebook integration. The PS4 does all the same things.

You show me some evidence (e.g., consumer surveys) that these non-gaming features are major selling points and I'll be more inclined to believe you. Until then I'm going to consider games, pricing, and marketing be the deciding factors. Until then I don't consider them necessary things.

We had the market referendum on what people want between a console that is more like a consumer electronics device with multiple functionality, versus one that is deeply rooted in being "only" a game platform. 

That was what the whole PS2-GameCube era was about. And people voted, and Sony won by a landslide. 

Sony's approach won out. Arguing about it now doesn't make much sense IMO. 

There's no reason for home console to not have extra functionality in this day and age. If the internet and Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, web browsing, etc. existed in the 80s/90s and it was easy to impliment, the NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. would've had those features too, Nintendo's been trying to network home consoles with the internet since the 1980s.