spemanig said:
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. |
Nintendo is not going to be making hardware in 7-8 years time if they do not make some radical changes.
Backwards compatibility at the expense of hardware is an insane philosophy.
MOST people don't want to play old games on their hardware period. If they did Wii U and 3DS should be selling a fuck ton better than they are. They're not.
So if its just a minority portion of the userbase, I say "too bad, so sad". You want that feature that 80% of people don't use, then you can pay a little extra for it as far as I'm concerned. The majority of the userbase and the entire development community should not be saddled with crappier hardware because 10 people want to play an ancient Kirby game from the DS-era for 15 minutes.
Even with a unified platform, which I do advocate for, I don't even think that is some silver magic bullet. They are still likely to lose marketshare overall even with that approach. Nintendo fans I think really are in denial about what's actually happening to Nintendo's market, particularily the handheld side of it. I think even Nintendo knows its really, really bad (which is why they caved to make smartphone games, something Nintendo fans overwhelmingly would have rejected, but they don't understand the business realities of what's happening).
If there aren't 4-5 things about the NX that don't make you say "wow, I did not think Nintendo would ever do that" that's NOT a good thing. Nintendo fans needs to kinda understand here ... they cannot simply keep doing the same thing they are now. That's why I think the negative reaction to the Nikkei report saying NX will run Android apps for example is misguided. Nintendo *needs* to seriously look at ideas like that.
