FIXED - Wii U sales 2014 vs 2015 - Week by week.

[Thunderbird77]

bdbdbd said:

Thunderbird77 said:

Exactly. Iwata said the NX is hardware. Nintendo said, without mentioning NX in particular, that their next consoles will have the same architeture . Nothing about sharing library and certainly not "NX will have a (for the most part) shared library and different form factors for the hardware" as a fact. The only thing about form factors was said that the market would determine it. And he was talking about a handheld and a home console as one form factor each, with the market determining if something else (third pillar) would be necessary, not about the same system having many models. A mix of clear and vague PR words, far away from what you and others are saying.

Not quite, didn't Iwata use Ios and Android as an example of their approach on NX, just that instead of an operating system that would work on multiple hardware, Nintendo's plan is to have one hardware that just would have multiple form factors (because of games being programmed directly to hardware). Iwata also told us, that Nintendo need to unify the architecture because it can't support two different devices anymore without causing a games drought for the other. If Nintendo developed the same game for 3DS and Wii U, they'd need to make the same game twice.

You do know that NX isn't supposed to be "one hardware", but "Nintendo hardware from now to an end"? If the market determines Nintendo needs something else, then they'll make something else for the market.

Answering your question, no, Iwata never said they would have one hardware with multiple form factors. He did mention the next portables and home consoles would be like brothers because of the same architeture, and the reason for that is to ease development (a team that works on one of the two will already get knowhow about the other and porting, when necessary, gets easier).