potato_hamster said:
Bolded for hilariousness. If the rumors are true, development on the NX will be more expensive and time consuming than any other platform in console history by forcing developers to develop for multiple hardware specs at once. If true, the Wii U's third party support will make the NX jealous. There's no reason for third parties to take a greater financial risk on a platform whose predecessor sold absymally. Aside from that have no reason to think their games will be any more profitable than they were on the Wii or Wii U (seriously, take a good look at how many third party games made any real profit on either of those platforms) Nintendo has already announced its once again primarily focused on catering to its dwindling fanbase, which means little to no chance at this console appealing to new fans. You can absolutely forget this console becoming a fad like the Wii. Why are Nintendo diehards so convinved the NX will be astoundingly successful? |
This has to be one of the biggest misconception when it comes to multiple spec software design. If you understand how level of detail works in gaming, these different levels of texture resolutions and lower-higher poly models are already in the games design and on disc. This is what helps these consoles to be able to run big open world games like the Witcher 3 at decent framerates. So all Nintendo needs to work on is an OS that talks to the hardware connected seamlessly as it operates the software it's running in real-time.
This is probably the biggest task Nintendo has ever had to deal with so far. By making an expansive OS that is simple, powerful and forward thinking for generations to come since NX will be the start of a continuous ecosystem. Hopefully they just partner with someone that specializes in OS development, but this idea that developers need to make all of these different versions just isn't true and isn't going to make the games on the NX suddenly skyrocket. The PC already does this very well and games aren't more expensive to develop in that environment. My guess is that the NX will be very OS driven and will probably take up a major portion of RAM on the console and handheld. So hopefully Nintendo goes above and beyond with the amounts and type of RAM they include in the systems design.
It's weird to me seeing people paint this as something near to impossible for Nintendo to achieve when PC has been doing it forever. You guys have to think about something for a minute, if Nintendo’s next handheld is anywhere close to the WiiU in power (after seeing games like Zelda U and Xenoblade Chronicles X), imagine what could be achieved on a 5" screen. The scaling of software won't be nearly as hard as many think because the handheld won't have as big of screen to render to and games would look pretty close to their console counter parts.
