zorg1000 said:
Shadow1980 said:
$100 a year until it's paid off? How much do you think it should cost?
I do think Nintendo should go back to making conventional consoles, but it shouldn't be overly powerful or expensive. Basically, it should be a modern-day SNES: Powerful enough to match the PS5 (or at least as much power as you squeeze into it and sell it at a $400 launch price and still have it break even), with a conventional gamepad, a sufficiently large hard drive, a more robust online service, and a standard Blu-ray-based format for retail-release games. Third-party support would be stronger, thus providing a more reliable avenue for stronger hardware sales than a gimmick controller, which like the Wii U gamepad may not "click" with gamers the way the Wii Remote did. If Nintendo tries going the Wii route again by making an underpowered but "innovative" system that relies on a gimmick and a lower price, it could blow up in their face again and we'll be looking at another Nintendo console with sub-25 million lifetime sales. |
How do we know a powerful $400, multimedia box from Nintendo will sell more than 25 million? Playstation brand has Europe+Others on lock down, the only way somebody is taking that from them is if Sony makes massive mistakes. Same goes for America, Playstation+Xbox brands are very strong, people aren't just going to switch without an incentive to. Japan really isn't huge into home consoles these days.
Basically Playstation+Xbox own the market for powerful, multimedia consoles with a huge focus on AAA western games. Do people really want or need a 3rd 90% identical device? In order for Nintendo to find large success with such a strategy, one or both of the competitors needs to mess up and relying on somebody else to mess up in order for u to succeed is not a very sound strategy.
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playstation has nothing on lockdown. no brand does.
