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Magnus on 11 December 2015
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Soundwave said:
Magnus said:
The 8th gen is over for Nintendo... they need to go after the 9th gen, that's their next chance. I think a new home console in 2016 is way too early, specially since the 8th gen has only just begun.
Their next console needs to have specs on the ballpark of the PS5. Anything else and it's just a stopgap console, and that would be suicide in the console business.

 

Based on their patent of a supplemental "add-on" device patent which adds more power they could do something like this 

NX Base - About XB1 in power, no HDD, cheap-ish. $199.99. 

NX Base + NX Add-on (NX Pro) - Far beyond the PS4 or XB1 in horsepower. 

I like the idea of a modular console that can added onto easily, and NX is simply just an overall platform that grows as time goes on. NX like I said should not be one thing, but varying different hardware models that all can play the base Nintendo games. 

"One size fits all" console won't work for Nintendo because they have too many audience bases to satisify -- kids, parents, teenagers, college age players, adults, pro gamers, casual gamers, mainstream gamers ... etc etc etc. 

2016 is fine, the sooner they can start building a userbase for the NX ecosystem the better. If they can be at 10-15+ million before the PS5 launches, that would be great. 

The way I see it Nintendo games can scale reasonably easily up and down since they're not dependant on the highest end specs. If you took Zelda on Wii U and bumped it up to 1080P + added anti-aliasing and maybe some beefier lighting/shadow effects ... it would look as good/better than many PS4 games.

If a one size fits all console works for Sony and Microsoft, it works for Nintendo. Playstation satisfies almost all audiences, even kids, better than Nintendo does. In fact the console business is the one in which you HAVE to please everyone with a single box, except casuals who don't buy boxes to begin with. Modular consoles sounds a lot like SEGA's Genesis add-ons, which bombed spectacularly. People want to buy a single box that plays everything every 5 years, they aren't going to bother with modules specially if you then have to upgrade them every 2-3 years. It's a bad idea.

I wouldn't speculate too much based on patents. Most of them are usually discarded ideas. The only one I would bet will be in the final product is the freeform display, but only on the handheld.

2016 is way too soon for a 9th-gen console, which is what the NX should be.