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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Nintendo itself said they can effectively support two totally different platforms any more. Thats why they merged they handheld and home consoles divisions and teams, thats why NX is probably integrated platform, they will develop one game in same time for handheld and home console. That doesnt mean evry Nintendo single game will be shared for handheld and home console, but probably majority of them. We alredy saw few similars project like that even this gen, like Smash Bros. or Mario vs. Donkey Kong Tipping Stars.
