fleischr said:
1. There seems to be enough good things about the WiiU and the Gamepad that the system could have better mass appeal if positioned better in the market. A lot of the shortcomings are easily overlooked when the price is lower. 2. If there's nothing actually ready for the NX home console in 2016, there's no reason to release it so soon. It very well could suffer similar droughts WiiU had early in it's lifecycle. Two struggling home consoles on the market, especially for Nintendo, is worse than just one. While we speculate a lot of WiiU games are being put on hiatus to become NX games, there's no guarantee that's even possible. Given the fact Nintendo has delays so many other WiiU games in the past, what convinces you they're already set to deliver an entire lineup we've heard nothing about on new, more advanced hardware? It's more likely NX starts as a handheld with PS Vita - Wii U levels of power, and then we get a home console with the same OS / Architecture but more power in 2017. 3. Read what I wrote more carefully. 3 million across 2017 and 2018 - basically just 1.5 million per year. That's pretty damn low, but also consistent with what you'd expect with one final production run of the system. |
Nintendo handheld is a console.
Nintendo's handhelds became basically consoles a while ago, Nintendo has to put as much development resources into them and they now require all the same games, and the next one is going to have Wii U level power (give or take?)?
That's a console. Development resources don't magically change just because the system goes into your pocket. The days when Nintendo could just treat the portable like some little brother device with 1-2 games every 8 months and then put out a Pokemon are long over.
I predict the portable NX is likely the heart of the NX line, the "console" will actually be the "kid brother"/companion device going forward, the portable is going to be the main star of the show and its chipset will be the basis of the console to allow for easy sharing of games. The portable is the sun of the NX universe in other words, everything else orbits around it.
3DS killed most/all Wii development too and slowed Wii U dev, lets remember that. There seems to be this impression that Nintendo can just toss together a portable and fart it out to the market with little/no effort ... no chance. A handheld launch from Nintendo now requires the same effort/time/care as a "console", because the handheld line is basically a console.