| Soundwave said:
Playstation and XBox are "smart" consoles too, they are very convienant to use and whatever feature a competitior may have for convienance sake is very simple to add into the hardware via firmware. I think this is kind of the problem sometimes (note I said sometimes) with Nintendo fans, they think Nintendo can or will do something soooo much better (ie: Miiverse is going to the Twitter of gaming!), the truth is Sony and MS are fairly competent companies, and generally speaking they will copy pretty much any notable feature. If you can play any video game of any reasonable complexity you can navigate and make use of virtually any console's features and really ultimately they all do the same basic shit, they're simple and easy to use, it's not like a PC. |
No, they aren't. They are not firmware first platforms. They are not seperated from their hardware. In order to do what the NX will do, if they even tried to copy half of it because neither can do the unified platform aspect at all without multiple viable hardware skews which is major, they'd literally have to release new hardware platforms. It's not as simple as releasing a PS4 without a disc slot and badda bing smart console. They weren't built, and understandably so, to do any of the kinds of things the NX will be built to do.
I don't think Sony or MS are incompitent, but I think they are going to be caught off guard with the NX.
