Ruler said:
RolStoppable said:
Nintendo will get a more substantial flow of software on both devices. That's the crucial thing to sustain momentum for hardware sales.
The only handheld that is dying is Sony's and Nintendo has a strategy to reverse the decline. All those hand-me-down smart devices will have access to Nintendo's mobile games which allows Nintendo to have a continued presence in people's minds. From there it isn't a big step for kids to put Nintendo hardware on their wishlist for christmas or birthday. Adults could see the benefits of signing up for Nintendo's account system that extends beyond Nintendo hardware; once they are in, it isn't that difficult anymore to sell hardware to them. The initial hurdle is to get people to download the mobile games, but Nintendo and their IPs are incredibly big names, so they'll move to the top downloads fast and will stay there because the download patterns make popularity feed further popularity.
I have no idea why you think that flash cards would scare away third parties. Mass production is cheap and storage capacity is sufficient. Additionally, the third parties Nintendo will bank on are already used to making games for cards.
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next gen games need 25-50 gb with blue rays. They wont certainly getting 8gen games on the NX. Yes handhelds are dying, nintendo needs to carve in their remaining user base to compete or why else they decided to mix now both together.
They went from 120 million gameboys and 50 million SNESs to 50 million 3DSs and 10 million WiiUs. And i dont think this number will increase with the NX, they can be lucky remaining 60 million.
What Nintendo tries to archieve is allready reality for sony with the vita ports, so i dont think the vita is going anywhere its powerfull enough to handle the NX ports.
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Gameboy was 2 separate generations, it did 54 million from April 1989-March 1996 and 64 million from April 1996-March 2003. In that same time frame, they sold 49 million SNES and 33 million N64.
