| Normchacho said:
That would actually be a really bad idea. It would do so much to hold back their games and would basically kill 3rd party support forever. It would be like if Sony said that any studio making a PS4 needs to also make a PS3 version of the same game.
Edit: Plus, who's buying the NX2 if all of it's games also launch on the NX they already have? |
People who haven't bought the OG NX, duh.
And no it wouldn't. It hasn't stopped iOS from becoming one of them most dominant gaming platforms on the planet, and it hasn't stopped Steam from growing exponentially. It wouldn't be like if Sony asked devs to make a PS3 version of anything, because the PS3 is completely different in architecture to the PS4. They literally have nothing in commont but the brand and similar shaped controllers. The NX 2.0 and the like would be much less drastic and be designed around making that kind of thing a non issue. That's the whole point of a unified platform. To make one game playable on multiple hardware interfaces. If it can work between something as drastically different as a handheld to console, there is absolutely no issue in making the same thing work on a console with hardware only two years more advanced.
It would completely change way people think about game systems. Right now the NES is associated with these games, the SNES with those games, the N64 with this, the GCN with that, ect. With the NX, it will be more like Steam and iOS. Steam is accociated with all PC games. iOS is accociated with all app store games. With the NX, Nintendo will just be accociated with "eshop games" or "Nintendo games" as opposed to "NX games." That means games from the NES to the NX 5.0. That's why I think referring to the NX as an "X gen system" is ultimately as stupid as calling a PC an "X gen platform." The NX will be generationless, like PC and mobile currently are.
And PS Now/the future of xbox live will be generationless as well. Gen 8 is the last traditional generation.
