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Nintyfan90 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. |
When I say generic, I mean universal in terms of how the gameplay works for both types of console.
From what we've seen from the quotes, the whole point of unifying the architecture is to make the behind-the-scenes porting and adapting between consoles quicker and easier. It could lead to better quality adaptations with the variations you describe; I have no doubt that Nintendo's developers will take advantage of that. It would certainly enhance what home console games could bring to handhelds (and vice-versa), which I believe was one of the main concerns raised in the OP. But according to Iwata's comments in that Q&A I mentioned, it appears this would only be possible from NX going forward.
In answer to the question, and based on the sources and quotes, I think a fusion of architecture is absolutely necessary if Nintendo want to have a handheld and a home console, and have them both be a success. It is a potential saving on time and resources, which could result in greater efficiency in producing 1st party games, and a greater attractiveness to 3rd parties through exposure to a wider audience.
Nintendo is not about just chasing 3rd parties. Their brand and IP is far too strong for them to drop, and anyway, they're going all out to put their IP out there in mobile apps, theme parks and so on. But okay, if you want me to entertain the hypothetical situation where Nintendo were only creating the NX in order to chase 3rd parties, a fusion of architecture across both platforms would still be necessary to maximise the chance of 3rd party support, now that the technology is available for them to do it.
