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PerturbedKitty on 11 January 2016
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Soundwave said:
PerturbedKitty said:
Thunderbird77 said:

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.

you are right about this. this is why nintendo has been so successful in the handheld market. their handheld games are not copies of their console games. Zelda:ALBW fits beautifully for the 3DS.. not the Wii U. super mario maker and splatoon work wonderfully on the wii u, and you cannot emulate that experience on the handheld. it just isnt the same. 

the last company to try something like this was sony. they saw the vita as a portable ps3/ps4 and, well.. i think we can see that this isnt the correct mindset to have when developing these things. 

 

Nintendo's been successful in the portable market because they make damn good games period and their style of IP (cartoony kid friendly games) play very well in portable market.

they apparently play well on consoles too, right? i dont think what makes nintendo's games successful in the portable market has anything to do with being cartoony or kid friendly.

Nintendo's had many dual release games/ports that have done well on portable though, starting with the very first portable Nintendo hit -- Tetris (also available on NES). 

tetris was something that plays very well on handheld and console at that time. a game like tetris wouldnt fly on neither in this day and age (keep in mind that we are talking full retail releases here)

But in the past you COULDN'T run Mario 64 on a Game Boy Color. You couldn't have Smash Brothers on a Game Boy Advance. You couldn't even have Mario Galaxy on a DS. 

Today though if you have a PS360 level portable ... that changes things significantly. That's where your analogy works for the past, but it's not relevant for the future, which is what NX needs to address. 

a ps3 level portable still shouldnt be able to run a game that was built for the 9th or even 8th generation.. hell, look at the newest MGS. that game runs like shit on the ps3 and 360. is that what you are looking for on nintendo's portable? to just have shitty versions of the real games that are on the console? this is why the vita was such a failure. nobody wanted the "shit" version of the real game that was on the ps3 or ps4. where vita excels is in its exclusive rpg lineup. 

It's been coming anyway, each Nintendo portable has become progressively more and more "console like" and has been getting more and more of the "main Nintendo IP" each gen. This gen Smash Brothers, Luigi's Mansion, Kid Icarus, and others are no longer console exclusive. Next gen, you can bet your ass Splatoon, 3D open-world Zelda, Pikmin will likely also cross over. Pretty soon you'll be able to enjoy all the main Nintendo franchises on the handheld. 

if nintendo is going to have some kind of merger of handheld and console, it needs to be in a deeper way than what you seem to be suggesting here. if you are able to port the 9th gen zelda onto whatever their handheld is going to be without any problems at all.. id be severely disappointed.