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Soundwave on 26 May 2015
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se7en7thre3 said:
Soundwave said:


Very small. Probably the smallest console Nintendo's ever made, and they've made some very small ones, the OG Wii and the redesigned Famicom are tiny. 

That said, I actually think there could be more than one home (console). There could be one made for Japan and what Nintendo deems the "family market" and one made for the tastes of higher end Western consumers. If NX is supposed to be one unified software ecosystem and the hardware is more tailored through different models to be able to appeal to very different markets and consumers, then I wouldn't be so quick to assume that there can only be one home model either. 

Yeah with the new unified sw approach, Nintendo can experiment with more HW types.  When Wii became a big hit, everyone said "if only it was strong enough to handle 3rd party games".  The audience was there but power wasn't.

I think for starters Nintendo will be conservative and if there is demand, maybe a year later, releae something that eclipses PS4 at the very least.

I think yeah I hindsight, they should've just for gone the traditional "we'll wait 5-6 years for a successor starting again at ground 0" with the Wii, and should've released a higher end Wii model around 2009 or 2010 or so, when the Wii craze was still riding very high. 

Waiting until 2012 allowed the craze to sputter out, and then Nintendo was stuck launching the Wii successor with zero momentum behind them, in fact by then the fact Wii brand had negative momentum because it was kinda seen as outdated by then. 

You could see the same thing was happening with Apple even, when they went through a long period where the iPhone was not updated or they weren't offering a larger screen iPhone, they started to lose marketshare to Samsung, but since they've finally refreshed with the bigger screen iPhone 6, they have really experienced booming sales again. 

If they had waited another 2 years to make a big screen iPhone, I think they would've lost a lot of momentum. This is a case where listening to video game traditionalists was not a smart move.