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Soundwave on 31 August 2015
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spemanig said:

The NX will end traditional Nintendo console launches, so no. Systems after the NX will just be iterative hardware upgrades, part of the same platform with all the same games, just like the iPhone. So the NX console 2 will just be a more powerful NX console 1 with maybe a minor new hardware quirk and an update to the OS which will still be downloadable on older models. In fact, I wouldn't be suprised if we did see the NX2 in 2019.

Also, I don't think there will be a traditional PS5 of XBO successor, since I think they will instead go the way of streaming with PS Now and some sort of PC console hybrid service with Xbox, so no's all around. Also, we won't see a successor to either until 2021, so no's full circle.


I could see it honestly. The current way of doing things is not doing anything for Nintendo so why keep playing by those same 30 year old rules. 

Most of the next-gen leap will be eaten up by the need to probably run games at 4K anyway. 

So yeah sure I could see a new NX 4K model in 2019 that runs games at 4K res with some added graphical effects, but the same games could still run on the old NX models just at lower res, lower effects. I don't really see the problem with that.