| Soundwave said: So they'll be as successful as STEAM without having any of the back library that makes STEAM successful in the first place because ... the user interface (which you are assuming based on nothing) is going to be so wicked amazing? You do realize too that companies like Microsoft and Apple actually invest *billions* of dollars in their OS right? Little Nintendo is going to show them up by investing a fraction of that? That aside, actually if they want to do the STEAM route, then grow some balls Nintendo and do it. Do it full stop though. Make basically a "PC Box" just with your service (instead of Valve's) that has a PC CPU + GPU which can run all existing PC games. Then you easily throw a Wii U chip in there too to ensure backwards compatibility. Now you can start a shop on that hardware where developers can take their existing PC games (hundreds and thousands of them) and you can say to them "hey sell this through our store, if it sells through our eShop, we get a $5-$8 cut per download, you have no porting costs, so no downside for you." THAT would be a legit game changer, because as a developer literally I don't even have to "port" my game to this system. It already works on it, so if some Nintendo fans want to buy it, hey, more sales for me even if its like only 10,000 extra sales. *That* I could see working and that would be a legitimately bold step. Unfortunately like I said, I don't think Nintendo would go there. Maybe they'd flirt with the idea, but then chicken out or get hamstrung by some ass backwards old timers on their board of directors that wouldn't like it because it's not Japanese enough of an idea. |
They're definitely not showing Apple up, but will they show up Win10 on the XBO? Handily.
The library doesn't need to be as big as steam's at launch. It's a console. Launching any console with hundreds of games immediately purchasable from the marketplace is going to blow anything that has ever been done before out of the water in terms of launch games.
They don't need to "grow balls" and do anything like that. Doing what they're going to do with the NX will be doing what no console is doing, and that'll be disruptive enough. They'll find more than enough success on consoles with this. They aren't going the Steam route. They are going the unified platform route, while taking notes from Steam and others that have applicable ideas and practices.
Blah blah unfounded Nintendo PC fantasy backed by nothing.
