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teigaga on 30 April 2016
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hoala said:
teigaga said:

Well circumstances  are quite different. N64 was never able to equal Playstations support due to its storage medium and the fact that architecture back then was so different. Most games were developed as excluisves, especially from Japanese publishers. who were the industry leaders at the time. This isn't the case today. If N64 came  2 years late but had Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Tekken, things would have been very different and the system would  be far more successful. 

Thats right, the situation had changedd. People know a days do play online. ALOT.

They want to play online with their friends. If NX releases, 60Mio people will own a Ps4 and 0 and NX.

People will still get the Ps4 over the NX (even if both get same 3rd party game) to play online together with their friends. That was the same situation in 2012 with the wii u.

If NX really is a powerfull console that goes into competition with the ps4 (like n64 and ps1), Nintendo need crossplay with ps4 for all multiplattform games or they are done before release.

The situation now a days is even ALOT worse then it was back in n64 ps1 times. You cant have a different system then your friends now a days.

I do agree that online will be an issue, I don't see it as worse though. No third party support seems obviously worse unless they replicate the Wii. Thats a massive"If". What gimmick can they use to sell systems? This is something that all the big 3 spend RnD looking into and it can't just be forced as an alternative to having decent power. VR is too expensive, touch screen doesn't appear a system seller, motion controls seem dead outside of VR.

Simply being cheaper is not a solution either, as shown by the Gamecube and Wii U (Niether systems had equal third party support to sony though).

This is why producing a traditional console is safe, today multiplats are the norm and unlike the Wii U, NX isn't arriving at the end of a generation, being obsolete from day 1.

None of this is based off my expectation BTW, I was simply correcting your statement that Nintendo has rarely  found success with powerful home consoles. Wii is their only home console that has succeeded whilst being weak. As I mentioned in my first post, I beleive they will equal modern consoles  (or slightly surpass them) and feature a gimmick.