S.T.A.G.E. said:
Soundwave said:
It's another gimmick driven platform from the sounds of it.
In other words don't expect big third party support.
It will be out of step with the general industry curve, just like the Wii and Wii U were (lower end graphics with a controller gimmick).
Fusion style game sharing will ensure Nintendo really doesn't need third parties to have a steady flow of games anyway though, that's the whole point of a cross platform.
I suspect third party support in the sense that the 3DS has third party support (Monster Hunter and a few other notable things).
Basically think of a system with 3DS level third party support + all/most of Nintendo's games on one unified ecosystem. For Nintendo (at least in their internal logic) that's probably good enough.
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I think Nintendo is finally going to concede and create a more powerful console thats friendly to third party devs. They know the PS4 and Xbox One are going to be out for a decade, so it wont hurt them to release a new console in 2017 that matches their power.
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Based on Iwata's comments ... nope. He just straight up said another "standard" console would be boring.
Expect gimmicks, now that the shareholders got what they wanted with smartphone games, Nintendo has carte blanche to go even crazier with gimmicks.
That was probably the price that had to be paid ... to be able to make NX the way Miyamoto and co. want (wild and wacky) they had to agree to cave on the smartphone thing. So Nintendo opted to cave.
3D tracking glasses that create smell and blow wind? Stuff like that (they already patented this idea last year).
A system that "matches" the PS4/XB1 but is four years late would only get slaughtered by the PS4/X1 anyway ... no one is going to be impressed by that other than like 10 million Nintendo hardcore and third parties will just opt to stick with the PS4/X1 which will have far larger userbases.
