The NX will be Nintendo's Dreamcast

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padib said:

1. They did the same with the gamecube, it wasn't an issue. They released some games for both the cube and the Wii and some just jumped straight to the Wii (as we see from the Wii's large launch support and barren GC end of lifecycle).

2. Nintendo doesn't compete with that market, they are two separate markets. What Sony and MS do doesn't affect Nintendo's market anymore. About 60m people chose Nintendo consoles this gen, some also play PSXB but if they bought Nintendo then it means that the PSXB didn't stop them from making a purchase. This will be even more true with a unified library.

3. Nintendo doesn't need main 3rd party support. As the 3DS showed, it only needs the support of some key 3rd parties. If the 3DS could pull that off (MH, RE:R, Yokai Watch, ...), then a unified platform can pull it off all the more.

It's not about lightning in a bottle, it's about rinse and repeating. If they get lightning in a bottle then that's beyond the arguments I bring up.

At best they will have lightning in a bottle, at worse they will do a bit better than what they did combined this gen (80m). I think they will be just fine making full margin on their games on their own consoles rather than paying royalties to PSXB.

1. That was a shorter Gen to begin with(both Nintendo and MS flipped over the board game and said redo), and I agree if they can pull a Wii (lightning in a bottle) my whole theory goes out the window. But I also believe if the Wii had bombed Nintendo would have been making PS3 or 360 games by 2010. I recall comments about alluding to this from Iwata and Myamoto themselves (not the 3rd party part per se, but implying the Wii was a last shot, which is why they went bold... go bold or go home).

2. The WiiU is showing that they do. They just completely lost. If the did not complete against the PS4/XB1 the sales would look alot different, and if they are not competing, exactly who are they selling to? Whoever it is supposed to be is not buying their product.

3. This is not about handhelds and never was. I thought I even said they would continue on in the Handheld market. I think they go 3rd party on console games (or god forbid shift completely to handheld...)