potato_hamster said:
Miyamotoo said:
potato_hamster said:
Miyamotoo said:
potato_hamster said:
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?
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And the controller?
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And the launch lineup?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Again, only difrence is that those patents are basicly what Nintendo talked about new consoles and platforms.
Well you certainly are not familiar with Nintendo plans:
"Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we would face serious shortages of software on every platform. To cite a specific case, Apple is able to release smart devices with various form factors one after another because there is one way of programming adopted by all platforms. Apple has a common platform called iOS. Another example is Android. Though there are various models, Android does not face software shortages because there is one common way of programming on the Android platform that works with various models. The point is, Nintendo platforms should be like those two examples. However, we are hoping to change and correct the situation in which we develop games for different platforms individually and sometimes disappoint consumers with game shortages as we attempt to move from one platform to another, and we believe that we will be able to deliver tangible results in the future."
"A dedicated video game platform with a brand new concept" by taking into consideration various factors, including the playing environments that differ by country."
"I can assure you we’re not building the next version of Wii or Wii U. It’s something unique and different. It’s something where we have to move away from those platforms in order to make it something that will appeal to our consumer base.”
Also Nintendo recently merged their hardware and software divisions and teams.
All that and NIntendo patents, indicate that they are going for unified platform that will be running same game across different devices, and that is largley accepted opinion about what NX is. Of Course, you can think different.
