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Soundwave on 20 April 2015
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Captain_Yuri said:
Soundwave said:

No, I'd say the current setup is closer to a "business disaster" for Nintendo. 

An irrelevant console that is going to be their worst selling console and their handheld market being eaten away by the cancer of iOS/Android market intrusion with many of their higher profile games (Mario 3D World, Smash U, Zelda U) locked away from 80% of their audience. 

Unifiying an OS isn't going to help Nintendo if they can't share the games, people play the games, not the OS. 

Nintendo cannot support a PS4-level console and a 360-level handheld either. It's not going to happen. Sony or MS wouldn't be able to do it either, look at how much trouble even Sony is having getting actual made-for-PS4 content, if they had to support the PS3 at the same time ... lol, it would be a complete and utter disaster. 

Like I've said many times before the days where you could make a handheld game with 5 people and a console game with 30 people are long since over. 

It was only (barely) managable during the Wii/DS era because Nintendo basically just re-used the GameCube chip again, and even there they could not adequetely support the Wii after 2010. 

Every Company has hiccups once a while and Nintendo made tons of mistakes outside of their usual strategy that lead to the issues of this generation... If they can reverse their mistakes such as marketing, horrible names, over priced gimmicks and etc which are easily fixable, then the next gen would = better

You aren't really saying why it won't help Nintendo if they can't share games though... It will help Nintendo because their devs wont have to learn two different sets of coding for each device... Instead, they would only need to learn one and apply it to the other. And yes, people do play the games and guess what? If the games are avaliable on both, they will only choose the cheaper option which is the handheld which will kill their console devision...

And this is why they need third parties which is why they need to make a console close to but not as powerful as the ps5 and the graphical downsides will be nullified by their first party titles... They can support the next gen handheld/console far more than they can with the wiiU/3ds but they will ultimately need third party support. Making more Nintendo games won't solve the issue because people don't want only Nintendo games, they want Nintendo games + third party games. And havin an unified OS would speed up development time regardless so we will be having more games

And yes, I agree that u need more developers in order to make games and they are having issues making games for both handheld and consoles but having a Fusion OS would help greatly in that because before, you needed to learn the OS for the handheld, and then the console but with the Fusion OS... You only need to learn it once

The OS is not the problem. Nintendo's game machines have been since the GameCube been made to be very straight forward to program for. This is why actually Nintendo's 1st gen games often look as good as later games -- see Rogue Squadron, Star Fox Adventures on the GCN ... because Nintendo designs their machines to be very easy to get performance out of immmeidately. This was their big lesson from the N64 era. That's not the problem. 

If you want discreet, seperate game libraries, that means Nintendo has to spend 18-36 months on a Mario for the handheld ... and then another 18-36 months for Mario on console. That's the problem. 

That's just how it works. There is no magical "cheat code" here whereby just because your developers are familiar with an OS that they can magically double their software output or make games in half the time. 

That's what I don't think you understand. 

You want basically discreet software libraries and you want increasing graphical fidelity (I'm assuming) ... I don't think you understand that this set up just isn't workable anymore. 

It isn't working now for Nintendo now, yet you expect a PS4 (or even PS5) level console + 360-Wii U level handheld ... yeah. I don't see it happening. That's the nicest way I can put that.