Soundwave said:
Wii was a fluke. If you can only do something once, and can't repeat it, that's kinda the definition of a fluke. Nintendo should just throw away the concept of what a platform and create something new. They can't keep doing to discreet home console + portable any longer any way. There's no way they can support a portable that's about Wii U/PS3/360 in horsepower and a home console that's PS4/XB1 level ... no way. So things will have to change no matter what. Personally I think they should just throw away the idea of a console needing to be fixed for 5 years at one spec. It's stupid, doesn't make sense for 2015, and will simply have them outdated of course and easy to take advantage of. NX should be an evolving platform where the specs can increase (or at least a 4K variant can be released) later. |
Allow me to disagree on Wii being a fluke! :)
Everything around Wii (the brand itself, the marketing, the games, the machine itself) was premeditated.
There was a plan at work since the very beginning... it even started with NDS.
Did it turn out better than Nintendo anticipated? Yes. So much, that for 2 years Nintendo couldn't stop shortages.
The real problem was that Nintendo didn't read signs and thought that a tablet for a controller was a big idea. In theory, it kinda was, but in reality it really wasn't nothing new and the whole idea behind Wii U just wasn't carefully planned and relied too much on Wii's success.
If NX gets released now, they can "replace" it when PS5 and XB4 arrive on the market to make it competitive. Again, if it really is about the ecosystem and not the usual lifeycle of a console.
It can work.
The question is, are gamers ready for that? It would help, in my opinion, if they sell an ecosystem and not HW.
We will see... February or May (my guess!).
