Soundwave said:
If that's what they're planning to do, they may as well just accept the console part of the NX equation is just a small niche product for like 10-15 million, even most Nintendo fans won't buy it (as most Nintendo fans today overwhelmingly choose a 3DS 5:1 over a Wii U). The PS4/XB1 strong hold on the core market? Hah. Good luck Nintendo. By then the XBox One and PS4 could be $250 too, so the NX won't even have the benefit of being a "aw, shucks, it's the low cost cute Nintendo console for families" thing going for it, as Sony/MS' pricing will start to reach into that territory already. MS will probably start talking about XB2 around 2017 too, because I think they are going to want to launch in 2018, trying to get a 1 year lead time on Sony again. |
I don't think there is a way to avoid going against a similar priced (or even lower price) PS4, unless they want to be drastically underpowered again. Even if they released it next year, it still has to compete with two consoles with larger game libraries at a similar cost. What it needs to have going for it is games that can look better as well as perform better than the other two out the gate. To get that at a reasonable price in 2016 doesn't seem likely.
What it needs going for it is a lot of first party titles and exclusives from third parties. That simply isn't going to happen in 2016. What we'd be looking at in 2016 is another Wii U launch. A couple late mutliplats, a couple of multiplat releases that would be alongside the others (none of which would really be any better than the competition), and one or two 1st party (of which would probably be cross gen and not showing any real capabilities of the NX).
Also, thinking the PS4 will be $250 in 2017, lol. I say good luck to that, the PS3 didn't hit that price cut until 6 years in its life cycle. Even then, the deluxe model was $299. In 2017 the PS4 will be floating around a $300 price point for the basic.
Basically, what I'm getting from you is Nintendo should get the console out next year, in no way be more powerful (and probably not even be as powerful as based on the fact you want it to RELEASE at a cheaper price point of the inevitable price cut of the PS4 next year) than the competition, and rely on the fact that you have more third party multiplat games to move the NX? I would say look at the sales of multipat to 1st party titles on what sells Nintendo consoles.
I say wait a year longer, beef up the hardware as much as possible (hopefully getting the console to the point of performing better at some level than the competition, but even if not making it better than at least equal the power of them) at a decent price, and stack the launch line up with as many 1st party titles and exclusives as possible (giving third party devs some time to create games being odds are they either got dev kits at E3 and shortly after, they were talking about making games for it ) or at least within a reasonable freaking window (we're still waiting for Xenoblade X and Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem, a Jan 2013 direct announcement). They could probably also use some extra time designing it and naming it.
I completely believe Nintendo would have a FAR better launch of the NX with 8 first party/exclusive titles, than it would with 4 first party/exclusive and 4 multiplats. The multiplats are gonna come if the initial sales are there and companies see it as a viable expense to make games for it.
