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Soundwave on 01 June 2015
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super6646 said:
Soundwave said:

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. 

Here starts an argument. What your trying to provoke is the suicide of Nintendo. Better off playing it safe, and taking a huge gamble and failing. Also iOS and andriod the future of gaming? You not only want to fragment the gaming market, you want to make it clunky. I'm not playing Andriod on a console (except for the NVIDIA shield, though it plays real games like Crysis 3).

From the sounds of if you want to play Mario Kart 9, Mario Galaxy 3, etc. etc. or whatever Nintendo's future releases are starting in 2016/2017 ... you are going to have to play them on an Android system because NX is going to be Android based. 

"Playing it safe" would imply Nintendo actually has some user base to "play it safe with". They are down to 7 million 3DS shipments this year and quite honestly they might not even hit that number. That is their lowest handheld shipment in 18 years going back before Pokemon was created. Let me put that in layman's terms: this is bad. 

We know how crap the Wii U is doing. What they're doing now is suicide. 

Beyond that no company in this business can support two distinct hardware platforms at once. Some Nintendo fans don't understand this concept, but continue to complain about Wii U and 3DS releases. Well what do you expect really? Sony/MS can't even release anything on the PS4, yet Nintendo being a smaller company than even Activision and EA is supposed to support two distinct traditional platforms? C'mon people. Wake up.