| Soundwave said: The quality of the screen makes a huge difference. A Vita screen (even the new models) and the Wii U tablet are very close in resolution from a technical sense, but you put them side by side and it's a laughable difference, clearly Nintendo is using really poor quality screens. I'd advocate more for a 1280x720 display. That is a nice pixel density for a 6-6.5 inch panel. If a developer wants to port a game that's a next-gen engine because they want to cash in on the portable userbase that Nintendo actually has, like say Square-Enix wants Dragon Quest XI or Kingdom Hearts III on the portable, then I think it's OK in those cases for them to "cheat" a little go with a non-native resolution like 960x540. Most people won't notice and even if they do it's not enough of a difference to really have a stick up your bum about, because you can't exactly put your PS4 in your coat pocket. If you want to put a game like Mario Maker or even Mario 3D World (or in that range of visual fidelity), something like that could run at the native 1280x720 screen res. There's no device comparable to that on the market, so it's not like people will have anything to compare it to since Sony is likely bowing out of the handheld market. I think NX will be radically different, even moreso than maybe what I can come up with. Like for example I don't think there will be only 2 form factors. I think eventually there could even be like 5 or 6 different NX models. That's going to change. I just feel Nintendo is shifting massively internally and that will reflect on the products they make. But again I don't really care enough about that particular discussion to really argue about it again and again, that's just my read I've been following the company since the early 90s. Nintendo fans can kinda be violently opposed to changes at times too, so that's nothing new, I've seen that movie before maaaany times. Forget the "lets cancel Metroid Federation Force!" and "Celda" meltdowns. I remember before we knew exactly what the Revolution/Wii was, Perrin Kaplan (then of NOA) made a statement in an interview where she said the Revolution was only going to be 3x the horsepower of the GameCube, and the Nintendo fanbase at the time online erupted in rage. "That stupid b**ch! She doesn't know what she's talking about! Nintendo would never make a system that's so far behind Sony and Microsoft! They'll never just recycle the GameCube!". It's kinda embarassing to think back about it now, but they couldn't really at that time fathom the concept behind the Wii, all they knew was what Nintendo had done in the past to that point. |
...I'm over here predicting that the NX will be a unified digital only platform with amiibo as the only form of physical media, and you think I'm opposed to change? I'm not opposed to anything. I just think you're wrong and I think it's blatantly obvious that I'm not. I'm not merely basing this on Nintendo historically, but Nintendo of the past 2.5 years and what they've recently been saying and releasing, which flat out contradicts 85% of what you're speculating. You can pin it on me being "opposed to change" all you like, but it's really just me seeing the blatantly obvious.
