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

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.

60 million is not really a small group (yes, I'm thinking about the handheld as well because its still a Nintendo console that a lot of people bought). Besides, we don't know, even if this picture indicates the real deal, how the controller nor how the console would work. Remember reading comments and articles on how things like Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, the DS, and the Wii were predicted to be failures or dismissed by gamers and analysts due to a variety of reasons (casual or hardcore alike)? I'm not saying NX will be the same thing, but an image should not have to be the end all, be all on deciding whether or not a console or a game will be either good or successful.

OT: If the controller looks like what the photo shows, I would like to at least see what it can possibly do in action, not just on paper (or from an image in this case). I know people dismiss the gamepad, but I honestly like it because it fits well into my hands (I have big hands) and I can imagine potential gameplay elements it can provide if it's utilized effectively (like being a play book for Madden or a course editor in Mario Maker).

Of course, I can't blame people for their initial reactions to this photo because its completely different from what we've seen in any generation. All I can say is what most will probably be thinking right now, just wait and see.