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Soundwave on 20 June 2015
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spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

I've said Nintendo should just let people choose what they want. Too much money/energy wasted in trying to dictate to people rather than offering them choice. If I don't want a purple sweater, stop trying to sell me a purple sweater, you're just wasting your time.

NX hardware = Mobile (as in smartphone/tablet sized) ARM + AMD system on chip. This SoC scales waaaay up and waaay down. Incorporates elements of the Wii U architecture.

From this you can have

NX Tablet = 400-500 GFLOPS, 7-inch LCD.

NX Handheld = 400-500 GFLOPS, 5-inch LCD, fold out design.

NX Family Console = 400-500 GFLOPS, super cheap (sub $200), comes with wacky new controller for family fun.

NX Pro Console = 3 TFLOP. Runs demanding games in 1080p, and even simpler games at 2K resolution. $349.99 MSRP.

If one model isn't selling great ... just phase it out. Most games run on all four devices.

I used to think the "Family Console" could be 1TFLOP, but now I'm thinking maybe they should just make it super cheap and let it act as a very cheap way for someone to get into the NX ecosystem on a whim, and then boom, now you have them stuck in your web, lol. 


I hope you don't actually think the NX would launch with that many form factors. What you talk about here is either a 10 year plan of hardware releases, or a disaster. No.

It'll launch with only the NXDS and the NX (what you call 'Pro') console at first. Then once those two have settled in for about a year or two, they might come out with a cheaper single-screen handheld for regions with a lower standard of living only cheaper games would be available on the system. Mostly VC and indie games. Don't see a "family console" happening at all. Nintendo doesn't simply make "wacky controllers" for the family. That's not their philosophy. If they're making a new gimmick, it'll be on every console because, in their heads, it'll benefit everyone.

I would imagine it would be phased out over 18 months or so. 

"Wacky controller" comes with both console configs, pro variant would likely just also ship with a regular controller too. Wii was a "wacky controller for the family" though, lol. That's Nintendo's life and blood, they value the "family at play" concept, their entire business is based on something called the FAMICOM, heh. 

Not 10 years. I think we need to get out of this 1989 vein of thinking. The world has changed, consumers accept different form factors all the time, we're used to it today. It's not like the 80s where you bought one VCR and the damn thing better work for the next decade or else. That mentality is outdated. 

Today it's about choice. I want an iPhone 6 Plus, I like the bigger screen. My brother doesn't, he just wants the regular iPad. My friend has an Android phone, but Apple still gets his money because he has an iPad. His wife prefers the iPad mini. 

Consumers understand choice, it's not confusing to them. 

Also "different" at this stage may as well be good for Nintendo. The current setup for traditional hardware releases is not working for them at all, in fact it works against them. So change the rules.