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Soundwave on 03 April 2016
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bigtakilla said:
Soundwave said:

Here's the thing that Nintendo fans don't get ... most people aren't going to be THAT impressed even if Nintendo has Mario, Zelda, blah, blah, blah at NX launch. Also good luck convincing third parties t make exclusives for a platform that has no userbase versus the massive userbases the PS4/X1 had. 

Hybrid console that is portable is probably their best bet now simply because at least it would be different. 

They can't compete with Sony head on in the console space any more, not directly because they've allowed Sony to become too strong and given the PS4 waaaaay too much time to build a monstrous head start and even get a freaking PS4K upgrade out possibly before NX itself. 

Even Microsoft is going to be very hard to compete against, the PS2 only had a 18-20 million lead over the GameCube and it trounced the GameCube, even the XBox One will be well past 30 million units if NX is a 2017 product. 

Really to be honest any console releasing in 2017 should have competetive specs to the PS5/XB2 ... that is way too late for a PS4-tier console. Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too little, too late, it's far more likely to be the Wii U all over again ... Nintendo's PS3 released several years too late. 

They will be interested though, they get what they want and don't have to wait for it. Then when the userbase is solid during that first year, third parties may be more interested in throwing the console some bones instead of avoiding it like the plague. 

Releasing in 2017 with PS5 specs WILL NOT HAPPEN. The console would be vastly overpriced for people who are on the fence at best for Nintendo products. Even the diehard fans like myself would be skeptical to drop $500 + dollars on a system that may not get any third party or extremely stripped down ports of products (like Wii U). 

There is simply no way people are going to buy it.....

Forget PS5 ... I don't think they'll even match the PS4K spec. 

In which case it will already be outdated before day 1. 

Even the freaking Wii U was a little better than the other systems when it launched in 2012, NX probably won't even have that card to play, the people looking for something better than the PS4 in spec will find the PS4K. 

Nintendo's console future is very, very murky. Like I said they fucked up allowing the Wii U come to market in the first place, now they are screwed because it has thrown off the entire time line for their console succession such that they are forced to bring out their 'answer' to PS4 several years late. 

If you're playing basketball against me and you spot me a 10 point lead every game and we're playing to 11 ... chances are I'm going to beat your ass every game. This is not a fair fight. 

They never should have released the Wii U, they should have scrapped it and made a PS4/XB1 tier machine for 2013 instead, now they are in a really bad spot, I kinda wonder if PS4K is Sony's way of stomping the console NX out, if so they are ruthless. Wii U screwed up everything.