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teigaga on 17 February 2016
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snyps said:
teigaga said:

I've considered this but only in a a situation where the NX "dedicated" home console does not arrive til 2018.

So essentially what we're receiving in 2016, is a powerful, dockable handheld that will phase out the Wii U. Going forward it's fine that Nintendo ports all games across both systems but how is BC achieved without the handheld also being Power PC? (a big no, no!)

Ultimately what makes the most sense is that Nintendo abandon the Wii U and 3DS at the same time, instead of trying to shape a new system after the Wii U. The fear of Nintendo's brand being damaged by them ending the Wii U's life 1 year short of 5 years is ultimately nonsensical, Xbox suffered the same fate and no one cared with 360. The damage from Wii U has already been done and it's not from a 4 year life cycle, it's from a lack of software on a yearly basis. Something that will not be fixed by giving the Wii U 1 extra year of life.

I can see NX home console coming much later as well and see just a portable NX this year. PPC is not that big a no no actually, it is very comparable to x86. So much so that 360 could emulate original xbox games and Xbox one could emulate 360. Porting from x86 to PPC is super easy and is not what killed 3rd party support. 

The fear of abandoning Wii U is completely sensical. Xbox's fate was very different because it was killed off at the end of the generation just one year before the ps2's successor giving 360 a one year head start. If Wii U is abandoned this year it will be at the start of this generation. Gamers demand a system that lasts the entire generation.

Nintendo could replace the Wii U and 3DS this year with an x86 console/handheld that absorbs the previous systems and still come out on top but that could also be a big expensive problem is PS4 continues it's trajectory for the next 4-5 years. I see no situation where Nintendo home console changes PS4's dominance. They would lose less money and reputation by staying with the Wii U for the rest of the gen.

But atleast we agree that the portable NX could do really well.

Regarding PPC, an X86 system around of the same strength of the Wii U wouldn't be able to comfortably emulate it? Because I was thinking about having NX handheld having full Wii U BC, it seems unrealistic without it being PPC.

With the bolded this is a line of thinking where you are pitting the Wiii U against the PS4 and X1. Due to its failures I don't think this really applies. Wii U owners must be delusional to hope for their system to live the same length of life as the PS4/X1, better yet what the platform offers (soley Nintendo exclusives) is so vastly different that it really doesn't make sense for their expectations  to be shaped by the other systems. People joke that the Wii U isn't in the same generation of the PS4/X1 but I genuinely think this is the popular perception. If the Wii U was recieving third party support that would be a different story but its not and ultimately whats most important is that Nintendo repair their image by having a platform  (s)that actually recieves quality games on a regular basis. 

If they can achieve this by Unifiying the NX Handheld and Wii U software library then thats great and I agree that they should support the Wii U beyond 2016. But it needs to be replaced by a new console by fall 2018. As long as the new system arrives as the PS4's in decline, then I think it there is far more potential in launching early rather then waiting for the PS5.