What's NX for Nintendo?

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Soundwave said:

Maybe Nintendo is preparing for life after dedicated hardware. They certainly are making several moves now to broaden the company past just dedicated hardware. 

I think it's a fair question too as to how much longer dedicated hardware has even for the likes of Sony and MS ... I'm sure there will be a Playstation 5. But Playstation 6? I've always felt ... who knows. By then higher speed mobile might be more common in the US (it already is in Europe and Japan), game streaming services that are just now taking their baby steps may very mature into the future of the business. 

NX may simply be Nintendo saying to Miyamoto and co. "look, we'll give you one shot to try and create some type of new Wii or Pokemon style phenoms that reinvigorate the market, if not, we're already taking steps so that the company can survive and prosper no matter what". 

If it's not as powerful as a PS5/XB2 then what the hell is the point of sweating so much over competing with Sony/MS? Such a console will not sell to the Sony/MS audience any more than the Wii U impressed PS3/360 owners, why would they buy a less powerful Nintendo console when they could have a PS5/XB2? 

To compete with Sony/MS realistically Nintendo not only needs an equal (or ideally better) console hardware wise, they need to also completely change their image. They need to market during things like the NBA Finals, NFL games, and TV shows aimed at adults. They need to play down their family IP. They need to spend millions of dollars in new Western studios that can make exclusive games to match Uncharted and God of War and Halo aimed at the older auidence. And they need to be willing to take losses on hardware ... even if they're successful, that will then trigger MS to get desperate and start price cutting, which you then have to match. I don't think people realize "competing head on" with Sony/MS is not as simple as they think it is. 

If you're going to compete with Sony/MS bringing a knife to a gun fight isn't going to do you much good. You need to either bring it all the way or check the f*ck out, cause that competetion is not for the faint of heart. 

Well they can do that all they want but they need to make sure not to axe their markets while doing so... They have two markets that sell a lot of software and the wiiU failed due to many reasons, not just one or two and most of which can be easily fixed. And yes, they are making several moves to broaden their sources of revenue but the NX will come out before those really take off... QoL is mostly at wtf state atm and their first game for phones will be announced this fall and who knows when the next one will be. Plus they have to realize that if those fail, they need a backup strat which is their handheld/console

And I am sure (with maybe the exception of xbox) that dedicated consoles will be around for a few more generations because they make money. And Nintendo has to make sure that when the ps6 comes out, they don't kill their own market. And of course, the internet infrastructure isn't really there for zomfg streaming and wont be there for at least 15 years

The thing with the whole competing against Sony/MS/Ps5/X2 is that Nintendo has one thing that Sony/MS dont and those are their exclusive IPs... Any issues with graphics and performance being lower than the ps5/x2 will be nullified by Nintendo's IPs that sell very well and the console will be priced lower. People are willing to buy a Nintendo console if it has first party and third party support even if the graphics from the third party games are not as great as ps5/x2. And that is proven by the x1 because it hardly has any exclusives and it has lower resolution but it is still selling better than the wiiU. The best case of this without going back into the Snes days is DS vs PsP and 3ds Vs Vita. All those handhelds had both first party and third party games from the respectived developers and Nintendo won everytime. Now will it sell more than the ps5/x2? Probably not but it will sell significantly better than right now without killing off their console market and the install base will be higher than the wiiU/3ds and in the future, more people can buy a Nintendo console and expect third party games. Also, the issues with the wiiU was that it wasn't getting all the content and for a next gen console, it was very close to the ps3/360's specs compared to the ps4/x1 which of course turned a lot of heads because it has the power of a slightly powerful last gen console

And they don't need to bring out their all, they just need to get a foothold in the market... Cause if they can do that, the next time around, more people will come to their system because they will have confidence in Nintendo's third party relations. They don't need to sell 60-80 million consoles, they only need to sell 40 million to have a respectable number with 60+ million handhelds and the only way they will do that is if they get third party games otherwize, they wont.

Edit: Oh and they don't need to pay western developers to make exclusive third party games in the west because a lot of third party games will already be filling in that gap. They need to pay some of the big ones like Rockstar to port their games but porting costs significantly less than exclusivity and they only need to pay the big ones