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pokoko on 15 December 2015
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Soundwave said:
pokoko said:
It's mostly true. There are opportunities available for Nintendo if they chose not to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony. Of course, there will be a lot of overlap but it doesn't need to be complete overlap, as with XO vs. PS4.

It's a choice they're going to have to make relative to the direction of their next console. Spend money on securing relative multi-plat parity and trying to take consumers away from the others? Or focus on a cheaper console that checks the family category, the Nintendo faithful category, and the complementary second console category?

Following either path requires commitment, however. Half-steps that excel at nothing will get them pounded again.

 

Change the rules then. 

Why do you have to follow one path or the other? 

That's what NX needs to do. Change the rules. Because right now the game is rigged so that Nintendo can't win. 

You cannot make a console that's simulatenously cheap for kids and powerful enough for older gamers and third parties. That is inherinetly a compromise that will always cripple Nintendo's chances. 

NX needs to destroy the traditional definition of what "hardware" is entirely IMO. It's not 1983 anymore, you can change the concept nowadays, in fact it's probably long overdue. Most of the "rules" that we as gamers think are neccessary are just things that are done today because well that's how it was done in the 1980s.

NX should be a *platform* (like Steam is) rather than a specific piece of hardware, and I think Nintendo is going that route.  

I almost think it may not be a bad idea if "NX" feels more like a non-Nintendo hardware line ... which just then happens to have all Nintendo games as exclusive on top of all other types of content. 

That's what I just said.

You can't be unique just to be unique, you have to target specific consumer groups.  Know your audience.

As far as changing the rules, I've said in other threads that I think the NX is going to focus very heavily on bringing mobile and browser games across different platforms.  The 3DS is scoring big with those in Japan right now.  My guess is that they're going to try to blur the line between game types, which is largely artificial to begin with.  Their game plan, I think, will be about unification with the lower segment of gaming rather than the higher segment.