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potato_hamster on 06 December 2015
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Miyamotoo said:
potato_hamster said:
Miyamotoo said:
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Ohh right on then, so what's the name of Nintendo's next console?

*crickets*

And what's the marketing plan?

*crickets*

And the price?

*crickets*

And the controller?

*crickets*

And the launch lineup?

*crickets*


Yeah, I think we're done here. This is absolutely ridiculous how people can pretend they know Nintendo's exact plan when they literally nothing about the console has been announced at all. Nothing. Everything you're saying is purely speculation.

Of Course, we don't know anything for sure because nothing was confirmed at this point, but we have Nintendo plans and things Nintendo said will do with new platform and console, also we have recently Nintendo patents. So my opinion about NX is based on that.


Maybe you should go back and take a look at the patents Nintendo has made over the years and just how many of them wound up in their products. I'll give you a hint: It's a small fraction. To be fair it goes the same for Sony and Microsoft and any other major developer of technology. Ppatents have always been a very poor indicator of what products a company will release.

In terms of what Nintendo says the NX will actually do, we know next to nothing, just "the vision of the direction the company will move in". It's all marketing and corporate speak that has little to no relevance to the products a company actually produces. If you look at what Sony said of the PS3 before it was announced you'd swear it would replace every device under your television for the next 10 years. That turned out to be a stretch, but it kept investors interested.

This Nintendo recent patents are basically what Nintendo talks about new consoles and platforms. Of Course, that doesnt mean that those patents will be 100% be part of NX, but I say that are good chance.

Those Nintendo NX talks and plans directly address some problems and mistakes they made with Wii U and they had in previous generations too. For instance they admit they can't any longer support two completely different platform like they done it till this gen, that leads to software droughts and weak support, and that's one of main reasons for their plan for unifed or integrated platform.

Sony made same mistakes with PS3, but with PS4 they basically corrected all those mistakes.


Nintendo's recent patents in no way indicate what will or will not be part of the NX. Look at the patents Sony made a year or so before the announcement of PS1, PS2 and PS3. Look at the patents MS made a year or two before the Xbox, Xbox 360 or Xbox One. Same goes for the same time period before any console release. A small fraction of the patents ever see the light of day, much less in the console that is released within that 1-2 year time frame. Again, it is in no way an indicator of what will be part of the NX. For all you know these could be patents relating to research into what will succeed the NX. It really does not indicate anything.

As for Nintendo talks and plans, please go ahead and reference the announcement that they will have a unified platform with a single game being plauable on multiple form factors. Ohh right! There is none! For all you know the successors to the Wii U and 3DS will be two completely seperate devices that have completely different games as Nintendo has done in the past, but the hardware's architecture is more similar making it slightly easier to make games for both separate platforms, and OS of both is designed in such a way to make it easier to do cross-platform multiplayer. There. That would be both more unified and integrated, and would do next to nothing to make any meaningful improvements to Nintendo's situation, and my scenario is equally as likely as anything you dream up. You're blatantly guessing at this point.