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zippy on 06 January 2016
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RolStoppable said:
tak13 said:

My biggest fear! I find it too risky releasing in the middle of xboxone and ps4 lifetime, probably when sales for both will peak ( as usually in the third year, especially after price drops), and from gameline aspects it's the best year for both. 

People's interest will be strictly attached to 8th gen consoles, what would this mean for the NX... While 2017 release can be near to xbox one and ps4 successors, mainly for xbox one! 2017 release of nx could force sony and especially ms to release their new consoles soon after NX 2018/19 (if nx is something that will create a ''storm'' of course) starting from scratch and giving to Nintendo the competitive edge...

Althougth, xbox one might not be forced by NX to get a successor earlier, but due to ps4 dominance, ms may want to pull the rug from under sony's feet by releasing xboxone successor earlier than expected, which  would probably be more powerful than ps4, as a result stealing its thunder but  hereupon sony could  answer with ps5... xbox/ps2 -> 360/ps3 situation repeatition m, schedule-wise... (As for NX, I don't really doubt that 2016 release could probably succeed, I just express my anxiety.)

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People, you need to get with the times. Most third parties have stopped to consider Nintendo a part of the loop in 2003. The concept of generations where similar systems compete against one another doesn't apply anymore, because in such a scenario Nintendo is doomed to the status of "we want to be like them, but we really aren't", thanks to the majority of third party multiplatform games being missing. The Wii U is the system that proved this to be true.

Nintendo already talked about a brandnew concept for NX, so it looks like they finally understood what's up. This is the point where we could talk about blue ocean theory, but most people don't grasp it. In a nutshell, blue ocean theory is about offering different values and creating a space in the marketplace for the product you want to sell. If Nintendo applies this concept properly, then NX will be neither too late or too early to the party in comparison to Sony and Microsoft. They will have a different product altogether, so comparisons won't make much sense. Of course it isn't easy to create a blue ocean product, but it's not like Nintendo has a choice (see: first paragraph).

As for the part of your post that I snipped, you said that the goal has to be to bring back the N64 and GC audience. You deserve a good smacking for that. The goal shouldn't and cannot be to aim for an audience that didn't move Nintendo above the bar of disappointment and failure, respectively.

 



Firstly Nintendo have to cater for their hardcore crowd, they are the sure thing and the ones that have carried Wii U through the gen. Nintendo aren't going to get a majority PS4/XB1 owners to jump to NX, because as proven thus far they aren't willing to buy a Nintendo console just for their exclusives as good as they are. If NX is fully supported by third parties,most PS4/XB1 owners would still be reluctant because they already have access to these games. So that just leaves the old Wii crowd to aim for? or those that game on tablets/phones? I'm really not sure what Nintendo have up their sleeve, but its nice to hear they are not going to be too hasty. Who do you think they are aiming NX to Rol.