Iwata: Nintendo Wants To "Suprise Gamers" With NX

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zorg1000 said:

Ka-pi96 said:

zorg1000 said:

Ka-pi96 said:
Sounds bad.

Don't want any surprises, don't want any gimmicks. Just give us a standard console with all the features people expect from consoles these days, great 3rd party support and plenty of good 1st party games. That's all you need to do Nintendo, please don't screw it up.

I like that Nintendo is always trying to come up with new things, I don't get why people want 3 nearly identical consoles, if u want something like PS4 or XB1........just get a PS4 or XB1, that's just my opinion tho.

There's no reason they couldn't have a solid base to work from that is similar to PS/Xbox as well as trying new and different things. Besides I think it should be the games that differentiate the consoles, not the hardware.

But what will being similar to PS/XB gain them? Third party games that won't sell? People seem to forget that Gamecube did have pretty solid 3rd party support while being powerful and cheap and that didn't do much for them.

The hardware is many times necessary to differentiate the games, things like DS & Wii wouldn't have been nearly as successful if they were just standard upgrades to GBA & GC.

By all means, I remember the Gamecube, and it's also worth noting that Nintendo skimped out on full sized-DVD support, HDD support, online support for more than 2 games, MC 251 as the lowest entry point memory card, an adequately equipped controller, and essentially fighting against HD output with the limited avaliability of the component cables, removal of the digital output port, out right removing progressive scan from PAL versions of Gamecube games. 

Yes the architecture was still in line enough with the others to provide serviceable ports of 3rd party games, but in all honesty, that was about it as far as similarities to the PS2/OG Xbox went, every time I thought about getting a Gamecube back then, I was inevitably reminded of what it could not do vs the competition. And I know I'm not the only one who felt that way. It still remains that Nintendo has not kept up with the Jones', home console wise, since the SNES, where the games did make the difference, as a result of the resources Nintendo entertained back then.