| Soundwave said: If we take the patent as gospel, Nintendo has much larger problems than digital or physical. |
A second screen won't be a problem with the NX because it wasn't one with the Wii U. The urganomics will be redesigned to replicate a traditional controller, and the whole thing will be much smaller. The gamepad's problems have nothing to do with having a screen. It was just an unurganomic, unwieldly abomination. A Vita sized screen with a boomering shape will be much more marketable than a giant fisherprice rectangle.
With what the NX is shaping up to be hardware and firmware-wise, plenty more than Nintendo fans will buy it. I've said this many times. Nintendo's problem won't be hardware and it won't be firmware. It'll be software. They need to cultivate a first party software environment where the mainstream western gaming audience would make the jump, and they've made absolutely no moves thus far to do that. Unless Retro Studios' game really is that "Uncharted-like" drastic change, and I don't think it will be, Nintendo's getting no third party support. Not because of bad hardware, but because Nintendo is doing nothing to change it's audience to one who cares about those game.
People don't like to hear this, but 95% of Nintendo games nowadays are niche. They shouldn't stop making those games, but there's a problem with them completely ignore the big trends in thr industry as if their way is selling better. It isn't. I keep saying this, but they need to make or purchase a massive AAA western branch like Square did with Eidos.
