potato_hamster said:
Soundwave said:
I agree I'd like to see NX be a broader platform that does away with a lot of the basic restrictions of the old hardware model. To be honest I'd like to see the whole "you're stuck with this hardware for the next 5-6 years" thing go away too and become more PC like where you can refresh/upgrade your hardware over time and do away with the entire concept of "generation leaps".
PC gaming thanks to STEAM is growing whereas consoles are slowing down. They're already kinda dabbling in this by having quasi-upgrades to both the DS and 3DS (DSi and New 3DS), but I think they should just go further with it. NX is the platform and from NX onwards that's it. New hardware models are introduced every 2-3 years, library gets pushed forward.
Agreed that Nintendo made a mistake in disengaging from Western development in the early 2000s. They lost the Star Wars licensing deal, they lost Rare, they cut ties to Factor 5, Silicon Knights, Left Field, etc. and did not replace them with other Western studios, they lets thing like the Kobe Bryant NBA Courtside and Ken Griffy MLB games fizzle out. Just wasn't a good thing. If 90% of the console audience is in the West, how can you really expect to have success in the West when 98% of your games are made in Japan only?
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If consoles become upgradable, and you have multiple specs that developers cannot optimize for you literally lose every major benefit of a console. Your hardware becomes outdated quicker, game compatibility becomes questionable, consoles literally become PCs, just running Sony or MS's version of an OS or steam. Literally what would be the point of a console? To buy a PC that runs games literally just as well as any other PC with the same specs, but doesn't have any of the benefits of running an operating system like Windows, except you might still have to pay to play online, and you might not be able to use a keyboard or mouse to play games?
Seriously, if you want a console that does that - it's called a Steam Machine. You and thee 5 other people who actually think that's a good idea can go buy one. Have you really thought this through? Are you oblvious to the benefits of owning a console over a PC?
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I think Nintendo first will launch NX handheld and NX home console (probably in same time), few years later they will launch new NX device may be successor to previous handheld and home console and maybe complete new kind of devices.
Point is that successor to previous NX handheld and home console or complete new kind of device, will have support for all previous NX games out of gate, retail, digital and Virtual Console releases, also, because identical architecture, probable same API and OS, it would be very easy for Nintendo and all 3rd party to continue to make same game for those devices as well as naturally for new NX device. We already seeing developers making games for PS3 and PS4 or Xbox360 and XboxOne, this would be incomparably easier, simpler and faster to make same game for current NX device and previous NX device, it would be more similar like making iPhone 5 app that works on iPhone 4 too.
