spemanig said:
Soundwave said:
I actually like the idea of Nintendo becoming like STEAM, but I mean full on like STEAM. Not a half assed compromise with none of the games.
If they got AMD to make a cheap, low cost 14nm equivalent to the Wii U processor (which will probably be like $20 tops) and threw that into a box with a X86 processor + relatively off-the-shelf AMD modern GPU ...
That would theoretically be able to run every single Nintendo and PC game ever made and more importantly every PC game already in development.
That means Nintendo could have thousands of games overnight, because developers wouldn't have to port anything. The games would already work.
That's kind of a genius idea. Add in that maybe the new 14nm Wii U type chip maybe can also run/emulate Android apps, and the library such a device could have would be staggering.
THAT would be cool. That would be a legit game changer.
No convincing, wrestling third parties to make games for your system, no "wait and see" from developers, their games are already working on the system from day 1. That's brilliant. Then between the console/handheld, since they could use that same Nintendo chip at least they could both share Nintendo games, but the console would have every PC game too (well mostly).
That would also take a giant shit on the STEAM Box concept since Nintendo could sell their hardware at cost (they'd still make money selling their own games), so no STEAM Box manufacturer would realistically be able to compete on price and they wouldn't have Nintendo games on their box either.
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As much as I love debating with you, (I'm not being sarcastic. You're one of my favorite users here.) we're way off topic.
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I'm curious what you think about that idea though.
Think about it ...
GTAV, Metal Gear Solid V, The Witcher III, Star Wars Battlefront, NBA 2K, Mario Galaxy, Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, Mario Kart 8, etc. etc. etc.
Playable on day 1. That would be pretty incredible.
Just take the Wii U chip, make a more modern version of it to 14nm (now the handheld can use this chip too), put that same chip also in the console with a modern CPU + GPU and sell it at roughly cost.
Is that a game changer for Nintendo? I think so, because it basically bypasses the whole third party question entirely. They'd have virtually every game, a developer would have to basically deny games from them simply out of spite as no porting would really be required.
Just to shit on Sony/MS Nintendo could just take the GPU that's one or classes up from the HD 7870 that Sony uses in the PS4, lol. I'm sure those are relatively cheap-ish these days.
It would be a hilarious turn around of the Nintendo-third party conflict dynamic. "You don't want to support us or you want to wait and see how our console does or you don't like our demographics, well turns out since you all develop for PC that we just decided to use a PC chipset. So all your games already run on our new box". Boom.
