designmaps said:
there won't be 3 different hardware. not to mention you are calling those skus of the same system. rollseye. |
There could be 3. There could be 4. Iwata said as much, unifying software developent will allow them to support more hardware setups if that's what they choose to do.
No one really knows what they'll decide, so saying definitively right now is silly.
What I would say is, I know internet fans are hellbent on everything staying exactly the same, but if Nintendo thinks like that, they are likely to continue to suffer declining hardware. They need to start changing things up and questioning "traditional tenants", especially when they're not even working to their benefit any longer.
So I think their designers are likely really being pushed to think outside of the box.
Also the portable has to be reasonably powerful to have scalable games work, if your handheld is so weak that it requires basically a complete redesign of the game to run or can't run a lot of the games period, then the whole point of a scalable platform is basically spoiled. So they can't just fart out a really low end handheld IMO, not unless the other corresponding hardware lines are also fairly low-end.
