Soundwave said:
To be honest I could see a unified approach actually getting *more* third party support than the "lets make a Nintendo PS4 and a VitaDS and support them with seperate libraries" (which is what most Nintendo fans here expect).
There's no real incentive for third parties to support a "me too" Nintendo console. Between the XBox and Playstation and even the PC, there's more than enough for a third party to feel like they're covering their bases. Making a port for a Nintendo system so people can play the same game in the same way is redundant.
But if you can share games on the go and at home ... well now that gets some third parties interested, because that's something the PS4/XB1/PC can't really do.
If I'm Square-Enix I want a portable + home version of Kingdom Hearts 3. There's a logical and clear incentive to do so, because the NX is different. Same goes for things like FIFA and Madden ... if they can make a portable version of the console games, even if they have to scale it down, then I think that has appeal to EA.
The question is how much horsepower can Nintendo get into the machine and how far up and down can they scale the graphics, but mobile chips are getting much, much more powerful every year.
|
That is actually a brilliant point of view. If the NX handheld can run games with a power between WiiU and PS4, nearly all eastern developers would turn their heads to the system and start bringing big games, because the handheld market in Japan is still really profitable. And the system would have a decent installbase to guarantee decent sales because the system would have Mario, Pokemon, Youkai Watch, Zelda, maybe Monster Hunter... and those games sell hardware. And after watching the numbers of hardware sold, maybe western companies would become interested again! It could work! It would be wonderful!
