wombat123 said:
Soundwave said:
The thing is the PSNow service isn't that successful. What works against Nintendo for a dedicated console (a very centralized library of family friend styled games) with a heavy dose of nostalgia may actually work well for them in a service like them.
Whereas Sony is more known for a wide variety of big budget, modern games ... people just prefer the regular Playstation I think over the PSNow. I think this concept would work better for Nintendo which has a more "cohesive" universe and doesn't really have to work about the third parties, that's Sony's problem with PSNow is how do you divvy up PSNow profits to third parties, Nintendo doesn't have that issue as they alone can support a streaming service by themselves if they have to.
Maybe that is a "tier" of what NX is.
Free/Streaming NX - $89.99
Hardware cost (For small receiver + controller w/Amiibo NFC reader)
Dedicated Console NX - $299-$349.99
Dedicated Portable NX - $219.99
Now why would Sony/MS allow this on this systems? Maybe they won't ... and there's a good chance Nintendo may not want it either. Buuuuut, what happens say if Microsoft allows it? Suddenly the XBox One has Nintendo games and the Playstation doesn't, so Sony would kinda be forced to match.
Nintendo could actually use the two of them against each other to be able to have their network service available on both systems without giving either one a dime just for feature parity sake. AppleTV could support this service too.
Say $7-$10/month for NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, Wii U, DS, 3DS, GBA, GB and NX titles ala carte, Nintendo could control it so that newer NX games maybe come a little later for people who have just the streaming service and cycle older games around. But I think a lot of people who aren't buying Nintendo consoles right now would bite.
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Unless Nintendo has purchased a cloud based gaming company or somehow built up the costly infrastructure for one without anyone finding out, then I can't see Nintendo utilizing a streaming service anytime soon.
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They did have those patents for a cloud-based service a couple of weeks ago ...
Doesn't Nvidia have a game streaming service too? Nintendo is bigger than Nvidia ($18 billion vs. $8 billion or so).
