| Wyrdness said:
I think people are looking at it from a wrong angle as I can see what he's trying to say, people are having a tricky time grasping it because they're thinking of NX as a standard console when it seems it will be closer to steam and IOS combined only with its own set of devices, the games don't have to be BC with previous hardware but they'll always be part of your library for future hardware is what he's saying. |
Pretty much. Basically, if Nintendo released a N3DS-level upgrade every year for the handheld and every two years for the console. The only reason to upgrade is to get better hardware because you can still play all the latest games on your old tech for years just fine, and you'd be getting a new major OS update every year as well, so it's not like the hardware would remain stagnant. And when you're ready to upgrade, you can just transfer your account and all your games over. That's good for the dedicated consumer. If you waited years to get the NX, you can jump in at any time and not feel like you're buying aging tech by buying the latest iteration, yet still have access to all the games of all the prior systems, because the software isn't tied to the hardware, but the firmware.
