| Soundwave said: I don't think the cost of porting like 10-15 games is all that huge and the ports pay for themselves when people have to buy them again (or for the first time). Ubi Soft ported Zombi U to PS4/XB1 with zero fuss and that's a game that has limited/no market. Sony and MS themselves will probably end up porting 7-12 different 360 or PS3 projects to PS4 and XB1 it's kinda par for the course now. You make a deal with IBM for PowerPC that's something you're eating for the next 5-6-10 years. Nintendo needs to get their manufacturing act together in general, they've made a lot of stupid decisions with hardware choices/vendors that have probably fucked them more than the "average game enthusiast" knows. Right now I think they're being absolutely screwed on the Wii U's eDRAM for example, only one factory on the planet can make it and it's now owned by Sony. This is probably why Nintendo has been unable to drop the price on the Wii U significantly ... the vendor suppliers are not willing to help them out because from their POV why should they eat a loss on a component on a platform that isn't going anywhere. That's what happens when you use ancient/weird/out of order components in your hardware. The NX from what is described should be able to emulate every from the NES-Wii, the Wii U has like 12-13 games really worth remembering and a non-existent third party catalog. Truth be told I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo takes a page from the Netflix/Playstation Live book and simply just offers VC games ala carte on a monthly subscription service. |
It's not just 15 games. It's also every single VC game that they'd need to port again, including from the Wii. That's over a hundred games. They're going with BC. All of the benefits of remasters, with none of the cost or waste of time and resources. No subscription, either. Goes completely against My Nintendo. Not happening. They want you buying their software.
