How Nintendo should launch the NX (if its a home console).

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Soundwave said:

Illusion said:

This is an insightful post.

 

Nintendo has already tried the playstation-killer option with the Gamecube and it didn't work.  The Gamecube was a ps2 killer when it came to technical specs but it really didn't really stop the gradual movement of third parties away from Nintendo.  People still thought of the Gamecube as the kiddy console even though it was powerful.  More importantly, The Gamecube sold worse then it's predecessor which is what might happen to the NX if Nintendo tries to repeat this formula (imagine, a console selling worse than the Wii U!)

Nintendo needs to get back to what they do best and that's making games.  They cannot compete with the platforms that Sony and Microsoft offer and I don't know if they need to.  I'm not quite sure what a Google/Android-based console will look like, but it sounds like a brilliant way to get Nintendo away from the nitty-gritty details associated with developing a modern OS environment and get back to making fun and unique games that are accessible to a large audience.

The GameCube could have worked, but only if Microsoft didn't enter the business. 

Once there was *both* Sony and Microsoft to deal with, it just became too much of an uphill climb to provide the same group of people a third option they simply didn't want. 

Simply put in a traditional console sense, Nintendo needed to bloody Microsoft's nose so bad in that GameCube gen that they would retreat and say "you know what? Making consoles isn't for us". But Nintendo didn't fight hard/smart enough that generation and the repurcussion is they allowed both Sony and MS to walk onto their territory and now there's no moving them. Once the mistake of letting MS get too comfortable in the game business was made, there was no undoing it. Genie came out of the bottle. 

Ultimately that's the problem with the "C'mon Nintendo! Make a An Aweomse Third Party Console (read: a Nintendo Playstation)!". Two's company, three's a crowd. If MS wasn't in the business then Nintendo would have some room to maneuver, but since they are, it's just become impossible basically. 

In hindsight, they should've just accepted MS' initial offer of putting Windows CE on the GameCube and made them an ally rather than another enemy that they didn't need. I still don't even know what the hell Windows CE did on the Dreamcast anyway but it didn't seem to negatively impact the games any, so who cares. 

They sold the goddamn thing for 99$ in just a few years (gamecube). So yes, they fought hard.