I hope the NX is a 10 year, mega powerful console, that is expensive.

[Landguy]

teigaga said:

Landguy said:

I wouldn't confuse the N64 and gamecube basic competance with power.  

I was thinking that if Nintendo was reallly going to release as new console only 4 years after the WiiU, they could at least make it more on the beast side than being similarly powerfull to the PS4.

Basic competance? In what world? N64 and gamecube were considered very powerful for their time. N64 was unbalanced due to cardridges size but was still getting games that were before only possible on PC and the gamecube absolutely shat on the PS2 and had early titles like Rogue Squadron and Star Fox Adventures which the PS2 was never able to compete with, not even at the end of its life. Basic competence would have been Nintendo releaseing a dreamcast spec system in 2001.

The equivalent of Nintendo repeating N64 or Gamecube in 2017 would be producing a console signifcantly more powerful then the PS4, which is why I referenced those 2 systems. Nintendo's home console history is not one of producing weak systems like wii/wii u.

gamecube top vs PS2 bottom.

I didn't say that the GC was less powerful than the PS2.  What I said was that it wasn't a big leap forward in power.  It wasn't even the most powerful of that generation(Xbox).

THe N64 was a better in some ways in not in others, thus the trade off.  

The truth is that there is seldom a case where any console is a beast in comparison to to the rest of the current gen systems.  THe PS4 is probably the closest to it, and it is not really that much more powerful.  

That's why I suggested the Nintendo bring out sommething of a beast to differentiate themselves from the PS4/XB1.  Sony and MS will not be bringing out another console for at least 4-5 years.  If Nintendo brought out a replacement for the WiiU in 2016, they could really get back into the market.  IF, they beast it and had it be X86 compatible and made it a media center like the other 2, it would be welcomed by Gamers and casuals alike.  

It probably won't happen, so it doesn't matter.