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JNK on 22 October 2015
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Soundwave said:
lonerism said:
even if Nintendo gets initial third party support, I can totally see PS4/X1 ports bombing and developers dropping the console again lol


That's why I think they should use Zen + a mid-range Arctic Islands GPU and a dev environment that's very easy to port PC engines. 

In that case it will be so cheap for a developer to port games that it doesn't really matter if the port only sells 50,000-100,000 copies lets say. I think Nintendo kind of has to anticipate slow sales of ports early on just because they're going to be far behind in userbase and the fanbase for some of these bigger IP is already migrating over to the PS4/XB1. 

If it's very easy to port PC games to (the console), then developers may as well continue to support it. 

 

It wont be as easy as i think.

Games like Arkham Knight and GTA V already showed us, that porting from x86 to x86 is not as easy.

Keep in mind the wii u was technicall even very similar to the xbox 360, but many games (GTA V) which were released on 360 werent on wii u.

 

Nintendo need great partnerships and a strong lineup. They wont sell much consoles to ps4/xbox one gamers, but maybe the can sell to all those people, who didnt got and 8thgen system yet.

 

They really should bring all major third party titles from the past 3 years to NX (at least: Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid 5, GTA V, Arkham Knight) + announcement for all new major third party titles for NX (like Red dead depemtion 2, Kingdom Hearts III, FInfal Fantasy 15, new cod, ac, fifa and so on). 

+ strong exclusives lineup (Mario Kart 9, Mario Galaxy 3, Metroid Prime 4, Splatoon 2, Pikmen 4)

Then they might have a chance.