| Soundwave said: If you wanna play 15 year old games, then you can pay the extra $20 as far as I see it. The whole userbase shouldn't have to be penalized with weaker hardware because some old fart wants to play a DS game from 2005. No one is going to buy a NX because it can play old games over what Sony or MS are offering, Nintendo needs to wake up and stop looking to the past to bail them out. |
If you're a gaming company designing a handheld around the ability to play old games, you're not going to force your consumers to then buy a $20 periferal just to play them, especially when they'll be readily purchasable on the marketplace.
Of course they wouldn't, by itself. That would be stupid for any company to thing. Thankfully, Nintendo are clearly taking strides to be less incompitant than you seem to think they are, since they aren't planning on merely releasing a platform with only legacy games and expecting that to sell on it's own. The NX will also have these magical things called "original games" and "better hardware" and "good marketing" and "good third party support" and "a better, more unified platform" that will, together, make people buy the NX over the competition. In other words, people don't buy the iphone over the android because of itunes, but it would be stupid to think it doesn't have a major pull in that decision.
You know, because consoles are complex devices that sell themselves with more than only one feature. You can say they need to "wake up" all you want. They won't. BC is staying. And not with some stupid periferal caveot.
