Miyamotoo said:
I dont Nintendo see doing something 2x-3x better than Vita because there is no need for such a greater power for handheld. Like I said, even just Vita specs would be biggest jump till now from previous to new handheld for Nintendo handheld, so I cant see them doing somethig much stronger than Vita. |
You want a reason? Here's a reason ... lets forget the PS/XBox crowd even that Nintendo cannot crack right now. Even within Nintendo's own user base, 80% of them will never play Super Mario 3D World this gen. Or Splatoon. Or Legend of Zelda U. Or Mario Kart 8. That's what happens when 53 million of your users are on the 3DS, and only 10 million are on the Wii U.
If that doesn't strike you as a huge problem, especially when these HD games are likely the most expensive games in their respective franchises to develop ... well maybe that needs to be focused on moreso. Even a many Nintendo fans don't want or need a Nintendo console. That's the cold, bitter truth of it.
The handheld cannot just be the after thought or the little brother of the hardware line anymore. The handhelds are where 80% of Nintendo's software buying base is at, and unless Nintendo pulls a casual miracle to bring back Wii owners, that likely is not changing any time in the future. I know the attitude here is bascailly like "well Nintendo can just fart out any handheld, but lets focus on the console with awesome graphics!", but that's a really short sighted view of where Nintendo is actually at in the marketplace.
That's why I believe Nintendo is moving towards unification and more specifically that means that Nintendo portable going forward is going to need to be able to play the MAIN Nintendo franchises, not just little hand-me-down spin-offs, but the main ones.
Beyond that I don't think they can support a PS4 level console and even a Vita level handheld at the same time without massive droughts. Even Sony this is like the third straight holiday season where they themselves don't even have a big title, lol, Nintendo can't get away with that. They are barely managing as is with the Wii U/3DS (and by barely, I really mean "not really"). You're just going to have unhappy customers for both devices if they don't unify in a real meaningful way because the software support is going to be frustratingly slow when you ask Nintendo's designers to have to take another generation step up in both console and handheld development.
