Opinion: As earlier NX releases, as bigger are the chances it wont be what your waiting for.

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Soundwave said:

CaptainExplosion said:

Soundwave said:

 

 

If the base NX can hook up to the "supplemental computing device" like Nintendo patented that could solve the "yeah but how does it compete against PS5/XB2 doood!" problem. Not everyone is going to need that level of graphics anyway (not everyone will even have a 4K TV).

 

The top-selling "games" of today need that though; Gore-Tits-Anarchy, Call of Doody, ASSassin's Creed come to mind. Those games wouldn't sell as well as they have been were it not for outrageous graphical overhalls between generations (The newest Assassin's Creed is a visual improvement over the last ones, right?).

 

Then buy the supplemental add-on if you want higher end graphics. 

To be honest console owners are still treated like 10-year-olds who rely on their mom to buy them all their video games ... it isn't 1992 anymore, the market had grown up and is largely adults. Let us have the option of upgrading when we feel like. 

Fundamentally I hope NX starts breaking a lot of these hardware "rules". Many of them are stupid and grossly outdated. I think NX should just do away with the entire "hardware generation" concept, why should Nintendo adhere to it when it doesn't benefit them at all? 

NX should update everything couple of years with new hardware refreshes. If you have an older model you should have an quick/easy upgrade easy option (ie: supplemental computing device). NX is an ecosystem that's bigger than any one or two pieces of hardware, its like Steam. Nintendo's goal should simply be to get people IN to the NX ecosystem with any type of hardware model, just like Apple does with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch .... doesn't matter if you buy the cheap $199 iPod Touch or all the way up to a $1500 iPad Pro ... you are in the iOS ecosystem and now Apple can make more money from you. 

 

Just to point out that it was already in the 1980's that the market was "males, 18 to 35", so nothing new here. What you're right about is, that it was the kids of the 80's (and 90's) that were playing videogames consoles, whereas computer gamers tended to be people that already were adults.