The only way I can see the NX succeeding is this

[snyps]

JWeinCom said:

snyps said:

You are right that they don't want any comparison to Wii U. I hope that the name NX will be enough to move away from the stigma of Wii U. As for storage for the portable games. You are on point there. 128 GB would be adequate for causal needs though. 

Saying that PPC is to x86, as cell is to x86 is so far off that I have to question your knowledge of computer architecture. PPC is not a hinderance in a market dominated by x86. It's so comparable that there is almost no reason to bother. It will not be the difference between 3rds and no 3rds.

You are aware that was an analogy and not to be taken literally, right?

But difficulty in porting to the Wii U definitely discouraged third party support.  So there's little reason to expect that trend would continue on the portable.

If Nintendo's going to get third party support, they have to make the barrier as small as possible.  Using anything but X86 would be a bad call.

But your analagy is wrong. Nintendo keeping with power pc is nothing like sony staying with cell. PPC is easily ported to and from x86.  The difficulty developers have in porting to Wii U is the touchscreen and weak specs. Add to that the low sales of third party software on Wii U and you can see the main reason publishers don't want to port.

 

x86 is so compatible with ppc that I'm fine with Nintendo moving to it. It's transition won't hinder the backwards compatibility enough to stop it. Even with x86 you are still going to have the real barriers that I mentioned. But if Nintendo's hh and hc teams are both working on the same architecture then there will be double the 1st party software which will increase sales and make a favorable market for 3rds to join. Sales is all they care about.