| JEMC said: I always read the OP before commenting. What happens here is that you see the good side of it, 2 devices for the price of 1, while what I see is that the device won't surpass WiiU in power (btw, that's what the OP says unlike what he put in the title), relying again on a gimmick to sell it. And that's another problem: from the last four experiments the DS and Wii were huge successes, 3DS did well despite its gimmick (I think the 3D screen did more harm than good) and WiiU has been a complete failure. And to make things worse, the experiment now also consists of mergin both the handheld and the home console into one single thing. No, I'm not very confident about it. And neither is Nintendo, which stated when they first talked about NX that it's not a successor for any of its consoles but another thing, which means that it's an experiment that if works will indeed replace them but that if it fails will be forgotten and replaced by actual successors for the 3DS and WiiU. |
I suggest you read again as he doesn't say it won't surpass the Wii U but says it's in the same basic power range much like Wii is to GC which kind of highlights the way you're looking at things which tbh is in a narrow minded way of trying to see thing. Merging portable and console is a viable strategy to go for because one of Nintendo's main issues is spreading resources across two platforms, if you look at the output of Nintendo each year they've put out enough worth while games to beat out or match any publisher in quantity on top of quality the issue is that it's across two platforms so two separate libraries. The fortunate thing is that on the handheld side of things they've crushed the competition but on the console side of things they're out matched but two bigger companies, it doesn't help that portable games are now equivalent to developing a full on console game so what you see as an experiment is actually one of the only realistic ways Nintendo can end droughts on their platform and also enticed third parties on board more so then just building a me 2 console with more power that will get ignored regardless of power.
No they didn't say it's not the successor of the 3DS and Wii U they said it's won't just be a simple replacement meaning it won't be the same thing only with more power its never been denied it's a replacement Nintendo are only avoiding saying what NX is replacing because it would impact sales of the current platforms.
You're free to not be confident about it but the main factor standing in their way here if it is a hybrid console won't be X1 or PS4 it would be Vita as the portable market is Nintendo's anchor and even if half of 3DS owners bought the NX that's still 3 times more sales then the Wii U and with Vita as their main competitor the odds are really good as Sony won't drop PS4 to create a Hybrid console anytime soon in fact it seems they've left Vita to its fate. One platform would also make marketing and all much easier as it's only one platform to focus on and Nintendo would have to push it hard being their only platform like how they did early on to turn the 3DS around.
