| Soundwave said: So why not buy a Wii U? Doesn't it have thousands of Wii titles and an OK-ish selection of Virtual Console games too. Nobody but like 10 people bought a Wii because it played GameCube games. STEAM is not comparable to what Nintendo does or what you're describing. Just because you slap 10 year old games on an eShop doesn't make you STEAM. STEAM just unifies the overall PC market, and the PC market is successful due to its flexibility ... I can upgrade my GPU whenever I want to have the highest end graphics. Is Nintendo going to do that? What third party games are offered in this magical Nintendo backwards compatibility service? Is the last Grand Theft Auto there? Last year's Call of Duty? Things like Left 4 Dead? What if I feel like checking out the last Fallout or Bioshock game? Those on Nintendo's service? No. Since Nintendo never got any of those titles, they won't be on this magic NX service, it'll mostly just be a back catalog of Nintendo games and their mediocre third party titles from the last 15 years. |
The horrible UI experience hide's that behind the terrible "Wii Mode" the NX won't have to deal with. :D And again, the Wii U had all it's other problems.
Gamecube BC on the wii when you buy an extra controller isn't comparable to an entire marketplace of immediately downloadable NES to Wii U games that will share the same market space as the newer NX games from day one.
The NX will have it's own flexibility thanks to more frequent hardware upgrades and it's hardware independant platform. The NX will "just" unify the overall NX hardware market. You know, like apple and it's line of highly successful devices.
They don't need to be there at launch. The hundreds of other games will suffice in the begining. Then they'll get the adequate amount of third party support post launch. Judging the Wii U, they'll likely get their fair share of late ports too down the line and even at launch. Only difference is that the NX won't be launching a year before the successors to its graphical competitors make its hardware obsolete. Not that that will be an issue for the NX as it would be able to match the competition within a year if such an unrealistic situation arose this time with a hardware upgrade, to no damage it the older models thanks to this scalable platform.
