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Thunderbird77 on 03 February 2016
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Soundwave said:

I think the portable NX should be the main device. Because it kinda has to be. It's time for the portable to stop being the "little brother" business wise it has the vast majority of the userbase, so if Nintendo is going to make headway with developer support the portable needs to be the centerpiece of the unified platform equation.

The NX console(s) should just be more of a secondary thing to be honest, and I know some people are going be angry at that, but I think the console should take a new position of a specialty item and it should be more flexible as a result with different console configs if need be (Euro/US gamers want a different type of console these days, that's just the reality of the situation).

Make a powerful but sensibly designed portable, basically the PS4 of portables. That's the "sun" of your universe. Then you can have different console models "orbit" around that central pillar, and the graphics can optionally scale up and the console user can pick based on their specific tastes what they want. 


Console wise Nintendo's in tough anyway, PS4 and XBox One likely will not be beaten for console userbase this gen no matter what Nintendo does. Too far of a head start now. I'd make the console an evolving line of products so they don't get badly undercut when the PS5/XB2 eventually show up. 

NX needs to radically alter Nintendo's hardware setup though IMO and embrace new ideas. If it's just the same ol', same ol', (which I understand is what some Nintendo fans want every 5 years forever and ever and ever), it's not going to do well. Nintendo needs to question every aspect of their hardware design and the modern function of said designs, what worked in 1985 and 1995 and even 2005 doesn't neccessarily mean it works now and it sure as hell is not working in 2016.

 

Yet again I am happy you aren't responsible for nintendo hardware decisions. At least try to understand that wii u's successor won't be an 8th gen console and thus, ps4 and x1 don't have any "head start", at least no more of a head start than any previous gen ever.