| patronmacabre said: I think releasing the home console version in Holiday 2017 makes more sense than Holiday 2016. If the home console NX releases in Holiday 2016, there's two major things going against its favor. First, it will be coming out three years into its competitors lifespan, which means those consoles will still have several more years left in them, and as such the NX will be seen as a direct competitor with the PS4 and the XB1. However, if the NX were to be released in Holiday 2017, the NX would more likely be seen as a next-gen console, and, as such, won't be competing as directly with the XB1 and the PS4. Second, abandoning a home console after four years is a bad move, but abandoning a relatively expensive home console after four years is even worse, and may severely tarnish Nintendo's image. I personally think that, because development costs and times for games have increased substantially, consoles need to aim for about a seven year lifespan, but five years is an absolute minimum. Additionally, releasing a home console in 2017 allows Nintendo to sell its new console at a cheaper price, since parts will be cheaper (assuming the NX will be targeting the XB1/PS4 in terms of power). |
It won't be seen as a next-gen console releasing in 2017 if it doesn't have true specs comparable to the PS5/XB2. It will be seen as another Wii U.
And the whole unified platform/shared software thing doesn't work if your console is that powerful either, it won't be possible to make handheld versions of the game because the console will be too far ahead of what would be possible in a portable.
Nintendo's best bet honestly is to just unify, let the portable become the driving force of their hardware and make it powerful enough to get more third party support. More developers would develop for the 3DS if it wasn't a piece of crap hardware wise, even Japanese developers have to choose to develop for the PS4 instead because the 3DS simply can't run engines that would satisfy players who want say a new Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts or Metal Gear Solid or Resident Evil.
So even though the 3DS has sold more than the Wii U-PS4-Vita combined in Japan by 2x, it doesn't even get much of the Japanese support, and that should change next gen IMO.
Get a tablet with a chip comparable to the Tegra X1/Apple A9X and Nintendo will (finally) start to get some OK develop support. Consoles can just ride shot gun, Sony is too tough in that relam to be bowled over unless they make a lot of stupid decisions with the PS5.
