Thunderbird77 said:
Soundwave said:
It doesn't even matter if the home console is a minor upgrade, if your portable is PS360 as you say in your post, that's pretty much the end for the old Nintendo hardware model.
The costs/dev resources/project scope for portable games becomes much larger once you cross into the threshold of PS360 level visuals.
That's effectively *two consoles* ... Nintendo can't even support the Wii U and 3DS as is without dissapointing people 1/2 the time, they simply cannot go any futher with natural hardware progression and be able to support it.
It was stupid anyway ... imagine spending $200 million on a Star Wars movie and then forcing it into a type of theater where only 25% of the fans can watch it. Would you say that's a smart business model?
This is basically what Nintendo does. 75% of their hardware base this generation will never play Splatoon or Zelda U or Xenoblade X or Bayonetta 2 or Pikmin 3 or Mario 3D World. Why? Because they didn't buy the Wii U.
At some point I think it's smarter to stop lecturing people on what hardware they should be buying and just let them have access to the games, in other words enough with the hardware worship. All this was ever about was letting people have access to the games (where the real money is made).
So why not have a rethink of what constitutes a hardware platform? Why are we stuck with rules that were invented for the 1980s gaming market? Which of these rules even benefits Nintendo any longer?
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Multiple times I said it's not feasible or intelligent to share all games for HH and HC. Some games are good for that, others are not. Nintendo's software output will already be better than the 8th either way, thanks to the same architeture on future systems and HD development experience they aquired. Done here, bye.
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It is feasible, the next Nintendo handheld should be able to handle even the most demanding 3D Nintendo franchise -- even the epic Zelda and Xenoblade IP.
I don't think Nintendo really even cares themselves for making high end PS4 games, they're not interested in making games with that large of a budget because if the game fails it means financial losses. They are quite happy I think making Wii U level games (hell even half their Wii U titles don't even push the Wii U as is) and then you can scale such a game up to 1080P + AA or even beyond fairly easily.
Even on the PS4 there basically are two tiers of games: 1) a PS3/360 tier game basically that's just up-ressed to 1080P with maybe some better effects or 2) games specifically built for the PS4/X1 from the ground up, but these games are much more expensive to make.
Nintendo can stay in that no.1 tier, nothing wrong with that. Let third parties make console high-end games if they want.
