Soundwave said:
This is kind of like saying though to the guy who hasn't gotten laid in five years, that he might not attract every supermodel by having a more brash persona. So what? At least it might get him some play and that's a lot better than where he's at now. Third party multiplats are not going to save Nintendo anyway. Nintendo has almost always had the lowest selling multiplats even in the GameCube era. Besides they already ARE two different specifications to support Nintendo today. It's called the Wii U and 3DS, and the Wii and DS before it. The main difference would be finally developers would be able to access the *entire* Nintendo userbase with a few modifications rather than the situation where it is today, where you have the 3DS that actually has a large userbase, but can't run basically any modern engine, and the Wii U which has no userbase so devs don't even both with it. If the 3DS could actually run/share Wii U level engines even if it meant more work, I gauruntee right now it would have probably double or triple the third party support. 50 million is still 50 freaking million, Microsoft might not even get to 50 million with the XBox One lifetime. |
If the 3DS could run/share Wii U level engines, it would have to have higher performing, more complex hardware. Therefore, it would cost more to make, cost more to buy, and cost more to put games on it.
What would that would do to its sales? They wouldn't be nearly as high as they are.
What would higher development costs would mean for developers? They would expect higher sales to justify the higher expense.
Yet another example of why a unified NX platform will more than likely lead to less sales than the Wii and 3DS combined.