Would PS4 like performance be enough for Nintendo NX?

[Mr Puggsly]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Nope, PS360 is getting cut off because declining sales. Not power. Hence, if sales are good they keep making ports.

Wii U never had good sales for core 3rd party games so they got cut off quickly.

OG Xbox sold modestly so sofware support wasnt great after 360 launched.

PS2 did huge numbers and continued getting support well into the life of PS3. However, PS2 is a console we can look at and say it didn't get a lot of ports because it had shit specs. PS360 and Wii U can actually handle most 8th gen games with scaled back visuals. From my memory, not many games designed for PS360 came to PS2.

CoD kept coming to Wii because it did pretty good there. CoD didnt last long on Wii U solely due to abysmal numbers, not power.

Its not just sales. Sales is part of the issue but that is not the reason the 360 and PS4 never got games like Assassins Creed,  Batman Arkham City, The Witcher 3 and so much more. They put their foot down hardware wise, but they are cutting the chord soon enough since the demand for their sequels are driving console sales. It had already been decided a long time ago that games like Batman, Assassins Creed and the Witcher were going to be exclusive to next gen before sales even began to pick up for the consoles.

But you're ignoring a lot of games designed to take advantage of 8th gen hardware have been ported to PS360. Such as Wolfenstein, Alien Isolation, Theif, Titanfall, CoD:AW, Farcry 4, BF4, BF:HL, Destiny, Shadow of Mordor (crappy port job), Watch Dogs, Evil Within, The Crew, Mortal Kombat X, Rise of The Tomb Raider, etc. But a lot of them have sold poorly so developers are moving away from those platforms.

What made cutting the cord easy was poor sales of 7th gen ports. Consumers that are primarily buying core games moved to 8th gen faster than anticipated. So its the more casual stuff that will stay crossplat.

You said, "Third party just cut off the 360/PS3 quicker than they did last gen." But that isn't really true, PS360 had AAA releases longer than PS2. We also saw more significant crossplat games between the 7th and 8th gen than 6th gen had with 7th gen.

Granted not all games would be crossplat, but many titles would be crossplat if 7th gen software sales didn't decline so quickly.