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| RolStoppable said: Indeed, it's beyond laughable. Most people's alternative universe would have had them designing a console that is like the PS4, launched in late 2012 for $400. Third parties wouldn't have rushed to make games for Nintendo's console because their games on previous Nintendo consoles didn't meet their unrealistic sales expectations. As a result, a good amount of games would have never been ported to begin with ("We do not believe that there is an audience for our games."), and the ones that got ported would be unoptimized because why would third parties bother. Additionally, the processing power of Nintendo's console would have gone unharnessed because third parties certainly wouldn't push the envelope for a single console manufacturer when said manufacturer is Nintendo. Heck, third parties' initial PS4 and X1 ports didn't look next gen either. The effects on consumer perception would have consisted of "meh, these games are not worth buying at full price" if people owned the Nintendo console, and "I'll definitely wait to see what Sony and Microsoft will have in store" if they didn't buy the Nintendo console right away. The death spiral begins to show its ugly face in 2013, Nintendo drops the price to $300, but it doesn't help anymore because it has becoming increasingly more obvious that the system will miss out on tons of games. Ultimately, you arrive at pretty much exactly the same result as Nintendo's actual eighth gen console. |
Exactly this.
The are issues like demographic who wouldn't rush out to buy these third party games just because the mainstream says they're good, third parties wouldn't have put much effort or even bothered and on top of that the are business approaches specific to the platform holder, Sony and MS can sell at a much bigger loss then what Nintendo can so the approach people keep harping on about in making a console like the PS4 is a dead end like you mentioned as by default the's no way to keep up, essentially the forum goers answer to the problem is copy the competition and that strategy leaves them at a huge disadvantage.
It's almost as if they forget that's what the GC did, people use the mini discs as an excuse when in actual fact 90% of the games would have fit on them with no issue.
