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curl-6 on 17 March 2016
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spemanig said:
curl-6 said:

I just can't see any realistic way out of the tailspin they've gotten themselves into. They can't compete with Sony in the console space, they can't compete with mobile in the portable space, and there are no more blue oceans to retreat to.

I mean, you tell me, how can they possibly escape from the bind they're in now, with stronger rivals hemming them in on all sides?

I think they can easily take on Sony, as long as they don't have this controller. Sony lost the only generation where it had real compitition. If the NX has a controller with traditional buttons, a second screen, and a sleek and urganomic design, everything else we know about it will, I'm sure, absolutely steal PS4's thunder. Especially if Nintendo embraces cross-play with the XBO. I don't think PS4 will stop selling well, but I think the PS4 will be the 360 to the NX's Wii in terms of sales. But it'll be worse because, inlike with the Wii vs. 360, the NX will actually be competing directly for PS4's consumers.

The PS4 and XBO are at 60m combined now. If the generation is the same as before, that leave 100m consumers who have yet to jump onto next gen, and NX is going to take the majority of them from the moment it launches.

As long as it doesn't launch with this stupid controller.

I think you vastly overestimate Nintendo's selling power. PS4 has this generation locked down, it provides everything a mainstream gamers wants and needs, nobody is going to get an NX instead unless they are a super hardcore Nintendo fan, which is a rather small group.