Soundwave said:
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. |
"Iwata said as much, unifying software developent will allow them to support more hardware setups if that's what they choose to do. "
lol, only thing iwata ever said was that THE NEXT HANDHELD AND THE NEXT HOME CONSOLE would share the architeture.
"No one really knows what they'll decide, so saying definitively right now is silly. "
funny because saying definetely is what you do the most. and what's worst, you say definetely about the most ridiculous things.
"Also the portable has to be reasonably powerful to have scalable games work"
who said they are planning that? NO ONE. and you are again ignoring that the 3ds had a version of smash bros even though it's 50-60x weaker than wii u. a 300 gflop handheld can get select shared games with the console like smash and mario kart, regardless of the home console having 3/4/5+ tflops.
