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Soundwave on 11 January 2016
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Thunderbird77 said:
Soundwave said:

 

You're acting like Nintendo has a choice. 

There is no choice. 

Nintendo cannot support a PS4 level console and a PS3/360 level portable. Sony or MS wouldn't be able to to do it either

So the only alternative then is to basically kill the console entirely and just make portables, but I doubt you're gung ho about that idea. 

But two distinct hardware platforms is over, the days where that was possible are long gone. Portable games aren't a joke anymore, they will require large teams and long dev cycles themselves going forward and the portable requires all the big gun Nintendo IP going forward too since it's the stronger seller.

Nintendo can't even keep up with the Wii U and 3DS as is. One's library suffers when they focus on the other. 

This is why Iwata started talking about unified library and iOS/Android like platform structure I feel ... they did the math 2+ years ago and realized they couldn't continue the same way forever. A share library is the only way they can have a console and portable going forward, the only alternative was basically killing the console line. 

Iwata said nothing about unified library, you're the one very talkative about that. Since you can't undestand and keep thinking nintendo can't do something they obviously can (even saying they should kill consoles instead of having a hh + hc), I'm done here.

 

Why do you even like the seperate hardware model? What's so great about it? Spending $500 a generation to play Nintendo games is "fun"?

Having a situation where the guys developing Zelda U (probably the most expensive Nintendo game ever made) are going to have to be content with it only being played by a small minority of Nintendo fans is a good thing? 

I think questioning the hardware status quo is smart. The current status quo *sucks* and it's not helping Nintendo at all. 

Iwata did specifically cite iOS and Google's platform structure as something they "have to" emulate. I can buy an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch (iPhone and iPad even come in like several different variations so I can pick just the right one for my needs) and have access to the same apps. This is *smart*. This is a 2016 business model, not something trapped in 1988.