Soundwave said:
Darwinianevolution said:
Nintendo is in a very difficult situation. After the Wii, 3rd party don't take them seriously. They don't trust Nintendo's approach to home consoles (who could have predicted the Wii? And the WiiU?). Nintendo has two options for the future.
-Follow what everyone is doing to try and get 3rd parties. Make a system more powerful than the PS4 to try and get support and compete with this gen HD twins and next gen Ultra HD twins. The problem with this are a lot. The most important is, even if Nintendo makes a system powerful and easy to develop for, other companies may still not make games for them. Imagine the WiiU debacle again: everyone proclaimed they would support the system, and in one year it was clear everyone had abandoned ship. Second, a console that costs as much as a PS4 or a XBone with half or less the support would fail, even with Nintendo fans. Third, a traditional route would mean no fusion, and that would mean competing with their handheld, probably as powerful or close as a 360 (mobile thech is really good by now), and that would be catastrophic for the home console.
-Do whatever Nintendo wants. Ignore the majority of third parties. Make the console Nintendo wants, cheap for the market, even if it's underpowered. 3rd parties won't even look at it, but Nintendo can compensate by developing a lot of games from the beginning and fast. Buy studios and grow big enough to support the console almost on its entirety. If Nintendo want to fuse home consoles and handhelds, let them do it. A couple of well chosen 3rd parties and a virtual console strong from the beginning (from NES to WiiU/3DS). Nintendo would really need to create more IPs to compensate the lack of 3rd party (more Splatoon and less S.T.E.A.M.). Invest part of that Wii/DS money sitting on the bank. This would be the more risky route, sure. But it would be the one that would pay off the most.
Neither option is perfect, both have a real risk of failing horribly, but with their home consoles underpowered and unpopular and the handheld market devoured by mobile, they don't have that much choice. |
So change the rules. Stop making 1 console that's supposed to make everyone happy, it's not 1985 anymore. Make different models of the NX and let the consumer choose which they want.
|
How do you think Steam machines are going to do? Probably terribly. This is the exact same idea.
