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Soundwave on 06 January 2016
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

Dissapointment with what? I buy whatever product they make, I'm simply stating the realities of the market as they exist in 2016. 

Sell me a console if I'm a casual player. Why should I pay $200-$300 for something like that if all I want to do is playing games for maybe 45-60 minutes a week and smartphone games. 

One of your realities is that third parties will port their games to Nintendo platforms if the processing power is there... and that's not the only glaring flaw with your pro console idea.

People often don't know what they want and opinions can change quickly. People don't know that they want something until you show it to them.

If they do, fine. I would make that model very much like a PC and very easy to port PC games to. Make it cheap and simple to port. 

If they don't want to, so what? 

That's the advantage of a multi-tiered hardware philosophy, you're not stuck up shit creek if one model isn't selling as well as the other one. Apple doesn't give a crap if you buy an iPad or an iPhone or an iPod Touch ... as long as you buy one you can access their app ecosystem and they make money. The higher end model could still have things like a HDD, better graphics for Nintendo games, which will still probably appeal to a bulk of Nintendo fans (who are actually adults, not kids). 

The home console market is what it is, denying it and wishing it was something else isn't going to change that either, or making consoles for the tastes of Japanese housewives isn't helping them much either. 

No one is asking for a niche console that only has 1/10th the content of every other standard. Would you want a cable box that had 1/10th the channels? Or internet service that only let you access 1/10th of the internet? Would you buy an entirely seperate Blu-Ray/disc format for Disney animated movies? Then why is this supposed to be an attractive proposition to someone looking to invest in a video game platform?

The game market actually really didn't change -- Nintendo did. The NES offered the widest breadth of content and had something for everyone even if you didn't give a crap about Mario or Zelda. They are the ones that have turned themselves into the Sega Master System of the console business ... the niche platform with a limited roster of a few nice 1st party games that are supposed to be enough to convince everyone that they should buy into that platform.