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Soundwave on 26 April 2016
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Darwinianevolution said:
Soundwave said:

My personal feeling is still that NX is something fairly different *while* being flexible enough to not entirely alienate those who are willing to buy Nintendo hardware but would want access to traditional type gaming as well.

So my guess is NX is a portable console, something that hasn't really been done before, which can interface to nearby TVs or tablets/phones and has some kind of new control input that invites people to gather around it because that just seems like a very Nintendo-ey design focus. 

Buuuuuut, it has a Supplemental Computing Device (SCD, which Nintendo has patented), which is basically just an extra APU for home use that enables higher end graphics for those who want that. And there's a traditional controller in the mix for those who want that.

That's what I suspect anyway, but I don't think it is just a vanilla console (for better or worse).

How do you do all that without confusing people? How do you market it? People were already confused about what the WiiU was (was it a tablet, a Wii add-on, a new console?), imagine trying to explain that to an audience that wants as little complications as possible.

It's a mobile console, there's nothing really all that complicated about it. 

SCD would be just a a simply home add-on for better graphics. I don't think it's terribly complex, it merges both Nintendo hardware lines into basically one streamlined product. 

I don't think confusion was the Wii U's core problem -- the core problem is no one wanted one that badly. I had several friends come over all of whom owned a Wii and we played Nintendo Land together, I explained the entire console to them, explained it was a completely new system, they even enjoyed it quite a bit, lots of laughter, etc. etc. etc. Long story short, 3 years later not a single one of them ended up buying a Wii U. 

It's just not enough of a "wow" product. It's more of "oh, that's kinda neat" product, but that doesn't really get people excited.