Is NX even necessary?

[Nintyfan90]

Hedra42 said:        Alright, I can agree with all of this. I find the line about Mario Kart being generic alittle offensive, but I understood what you were saying. Wouldnt you say Ninty further designing the game to fit a portable platform understandable? Wiisports could have been on any platform but Wiisports wouldnt have been able to take advantage of the Wii's strength(motion controls). So yeah I understand all of this, but I think what could be unique about a game on NX portable and NX home could be all the modes available on the cartridge or disc(whatever NX uses) could have modes locked away for when its being used on the home console such as local multiplayer. For example, New Super Mario Bros. 3(you know its coming to both) could have online multiplayer mode available to both but local multiplayer available to NX home only. Or maybe Mario tennis be played with buttons on NX portable but motion control on NX home. Its still the same game but can take advantage of each hardware advantages. I believe thats what NX is all about, Ninty is notorious for having games with lots of different controls. Smash is the king of that.        Those quotes weren't properly explained. I meant they shared the same franchises and dont really offer much more than the other. The games on each will obviously take advantage of the hardware it released on. And many of the things people say NX home and NX port are meant for can be done on 3DS and WiiU. Crossbuy, using the handheld as a controller, and unified accounts are possible to some extent on 3DS and WiiU. Ofcourse NX could take them a step further but thats only because 3DS and WiiU arent meant to do these things.       Lets not kid ourselves, both plats will make a return. Such a dramatic change aint happening so soon. Them merging their divisions, is them fighting for the survival of both. A machine that tries to do both is way to risky and would fail in atleast one of the markets. Ninty will be back with a home and handheld that share quite similar tech in them, from there we dont know where Ninty is headed. That was the point of this thread. Is a fusion of some sort necessary if you are just chasing 3rd parties.