Soundwave said:
bigtakilla said:
Well sure I can agree with you guys there, but you're talking about software sales of single titles and I'm talking about hardware. There would be no reason to get the other if you had one, especially since now they have the same exact games. This also cuts out the people who DO own both systems. Before Nintendo could get money from 3D Land AND 3D World. Now they only get money from one. And while building only one game for two systems will mean home console titles release quicker, having to wait for a handheld game to get developed for a home console before releasing it may mean fewer titles on the handheld than what hh console owners are used to. Just think, there have been 2 new hh LoZ (ALBW and Triforce Heroes) and two pretty well upgraded LoZs (MM and OOT). Home console we had Windwaker HD (great updated version) Twilight Princess HD (meh upgrade not even done by Nintendo), and soon Zelda U. I doubt because the developers combine we're going to get 7 LoZ's. It's only when we look directly at individual title's sales that we would see any real benefit.
This ultimately results in fewer consoles sold and less titles developed when looking at Nintendo as a whole entity (home consoles and handheld)in its current state, all they will get from that is a boost in software which they honestly really don't need anyways.
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I don't really buy this train of logic because really EAD Tokyo could have made say Mario 3D World and then Super Mario Galaxy 3 in the same time that instead were working on Mario 3D Land and then Mario 3D World.
There's no rule saying you can only make one Mario game just because you have a unified platform.
You may not get quite as many Zeldas, but who needs that many freaking Zelda games (7 in one generation?) to play? Let those Zelda teams work on (gasp!) new ideas, you may just stumble upon the next Splatoon or GoldenEye or Pokemon if you let one of these teams do something original once every decade.
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I'm not buying your train of logic that 3d Land and a Galaxy 3 would take anywhere near the same time to develop. Especially if you had to make sure the performance Nintendo is known for holds up on two seperate devices.
Also, the fact that there were 7 LoZs is not the point. I'm saying instead of 4 games now you get two because everything would have the development time of a home console game.
