Soundwave said:
It will matter from day 1. No one gets excited for a system that's basically the same thing as something else that launched 3-4 years earlier? Would you be excited about the smartphone that's as powerful as iPhone 5? Yeah it can run the same apps, but so what? This strategy only works if you have a groundbreaking, earth shattering, stop everything you have to try this type of other aspect to their hardware like the Wiimote was to the year 2006. PS4/XB1 is crap hardware by today's standards, even Sony is apparently making something double the PS4 for $400 in PS4K, you will have tablets as powerful as the XB1 at least quite soon. |
No it will not matter from day 1. As Nintendo does not have good third party support. Not that many will be excited about it IMO. Its not gonna have that big of effect on gamming markets and people are getting uppity over not much IMO. The gaming industry is really stable and not much has changed since the 90's in terms of major players, there has always been Sony and Nintendo and a third company. Sony does well in console relm while Nintendo does well in the handhelds and the third company tries to get market share.
What tablets have been announced that have 1.3+ terraflops of gpu performance and 8 core 1.6 ghz x86 class cpu performance. There are none. ARM cpus even at the same ghz and number of cores will have about 1/3 the performance of a similar x86/powerpc cpu.
