JEMC said:
hansrob00 said:
Logical inference about NX I am gathering based on posts, articles, steaments and rumors.
1. Nintendo is most likely going to be building a budget console of around $200 - $250 and around 200 for their handheld
2. Powerwise it the handheld and the console version will be relatively close together, with the console version only somewhat more powerful.
3 Nintendo is likely to make their console and handheld have a common architecture and operating system. The customer will buy one version and get the other version for free on the other or perhaps be able to insert the game in both the handheld and the home version.
4. The next console will be probably more powerful than the Wii U, but probably less so than the xbox one. How much less so under the Xbox1, I'm not sure.
5. Nintendo will be using some kind of account based system managing games, offering deals, and giving online functionality in their games
6. The online capabiliities will be significantly better than wii u but probably less so than the ps4 and xbox1, at least out of the gate. Nintendo has even stated that online functionality in games is becoming increasingly important to them. You can see this fact in games like Splatoon.
Based on other rumors I have heard, but am not so sure about.
1. Nintendo's next hardware will have some kind of android functionality, to what degree is still up in the air.
2. There will be some appeasing of 3rd parties to make their games easily ported over to the new systems, but to what degree, I am also unsure. I also don't think they are going to be bending over backwards for 3rd parties because they are unreliable and have been burned in the past. I think Nintendo figures they will have enough output for their games because they are now building one game for 2 systems. They can also leverage their handheld base and home console, so maybe they figure that 3rd parties will eventually come because the combined install base are simply numbers that the 3rd parties cannot ignore.
Also, will they be charging some kind of monthly online fee to be able to play online like Microsoft or Sony. I'm betting on no because again they are going to be building a budget console and want to keep the price down. Their hand in the market is not strong (the wii u selling only 10 million so far and a shrinking handheld market), so they have to take a more pro-consumer stance. So the question would be how do you get more online functionality, while keeping it free.
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My own thoughts:
1-Agree on the console but not the handheld. I think $180 is more likely.
2-We don't have any details on that, so I'm just going to say that I hope they are not. A $250 console can be a lot more powerful than a $200 handheld.
3-Yes, I agree. Nintendo said that they would share the same arhitecture and the OS could be based on Android as some rumors have said. But the part about buying one game and playing on any NX machine... well, with Nintendo you never know. They could launch 3 SKUs for their games: handheld, home console (both same price) and both, with the latter being $5/10 more expensive.
4-Again, we don't have any details on that, so I won't say anything.
5-That's for granted. After all, this was one the claimed reasons to go with DeNA, to help them develop an account system.
6-Agree and, merging it with your last section, I could see Nintendo going for a Live like system with some functionalities being free (one of them online play) and others reserved for paying customers.
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I believe power wise that the handheld and the console will be failry close together spec wise is because that's the only way they will be able to port their games onto both systems extremely easily (at least according to Iwata to have them be brothers in an ecosystem much like how apple does their products. You can't take a ps4 game and port it onto a ps2, hell you can't even take a ps4 game and easily port it to the ps3. Even with pcs for the newer games, even if you drop the resolution down to 720, and minimize a lot of the other game settings, the game will only play within a certain range of machines. I believe at most, the handheld can only be about a half generation behind the console in terms of power. So when the NX comes out and you get something that is considered like ps3.5 powerwise for the console(xbox1 seems like the equivalent of about a ps3.8 on the spectrum), the furthest back the handheld would be is a ps3. The Wii U is probably more like a ps3.2. So powerwise the console may be somewhere halfway between the wii u and the ps4, and handheld will be about as strong as the wii u, if you go by how Nintendo has done their previous handhelds.
