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Soundwave on 01 June 2015
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super6646 said:
Soundwave said:

The rules are going to change with NX. Not because of Nintendo per say, but because it's already happening. Nintendo just might be the smart one in embracing the sea tide change rather than trying to swim upstream. The industry is changing, hard core gamers are the most blind to it though because they don't want to see it. 

This formula of graphics improving 10 fold every generation and developers being asked to make games for new hardware of such high visual fidelity for the same $50-$60 could no go on forever either. 

IMO a lot of devs, especially Japanese devs are going to say "thanks, but no thanks" to a Playstation 5. Western devs too. 

I don't think your idea is going to work...

It's not my idea. Iwata has already basically said they are making changes and looking to pursue multiple hardware congifurations that can run the same software. He specifically cited iOS and Android as platforms that do this. 

And you know what ... it's SMART. Following the old model of how game consoles work was made in the 1985 with NES. I don't know if you noticed but it's not 1985 anymore. That's 30 years ago, in tech terms that might as well be 2000 years ago. That's stone age thinking. 

Change is good, Nintendo should embrace it, they have nothing to lose by abandoning the current model. It worked for them 20 years ago, but it doesn't anymore. They can't even sell 8 million handhelds a year reliably anymore, things have to change. They can't continue as is, and while I know Nintendo fans look at PS4/XB1 and say "well just do that! just do it better with Nintendo games! Yeah", this isn't realistic either. The market doesn't want three consoles doing the same thing. 

Nintendo screwed the pooch in that regard by letting both Sony and MS walk into their territory and get too comfortable, now neither is leaving. So they have to change.