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Soundwave on 11 October 2015
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spemanig said:
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.


I disagree. Sony and MS' consoles do *a lot* these days, are easy to use, interface with Facebook/Twitter/Instagram and have fantastic online communities that dwarf Nintendo's current standing and are increasing their platform interface with smartphones and tablets as well. Microsoft looks to be giving their OS a massive upgrade this Decmeber too and no doubt that will push Sony to improve what they're offering. 

Nintendo will be able to share games probably between portable and console, but that in of itself isn't going to sway many of the Playstation/XBox core fanbase IMO. 

Nintendo has allowed Sony/MS too long of free reign over the types of audiences that buy the important modern console franchises like Destiny, Madden, Call of Duty, FIFA, Assassin's Creed, etc. ... they have no sway with this audience at all any more and IMO they're not going to be able to pull another Wii because Apple is killing them on the other end with free games and far sexier and more appealling true lifestyle products, not just "games and toys". 

They need something that's a big game changer than this with the NX. 

The Wii was a radical departure from anything before it that could be understand in like 20 seconds. And even THEN, they *barely* managed to beat Sony even though Sony did virtually everything wrong with the PS3 early on while virtually everything possible went right for Nintendo early on. 

The XBox One is the first true "smart console" as in a console designed to do everything all in one place. There just isn't a huge market for that though, unlike a tablet or phone, the only thing most people want to do with a game console is: A) play games or B) watch movies on it. I don't want to listen to music through my console or Twitter through my console or surf the internet on my TV ... that's the whole problem with it. 

The PS4 arguably does the least in some ways, but it plays games the best of the three.