Emily Rogers: NX not gonna use X86 architecture, raw power close to XBO

[setsunatenshi]

spemanig said:

setsunatenshi said:

x86 is an established architecture which makes the porting very very easy between consoles and PC. You know that games are made on PC, right? When the industry standard is X86 it's a big financial risk (burden) to dedicate resources to only 1 specific console that in 2017 has yet to sell any unit. I have no idea about the power of this NX, but I also have a brain and memory that helps me predict how Nintendo will behave based on previous experience. If it's true that they are not going for X86, they're really only screwing themselves over.

You're placing way to much stock into how important x86 is to console developement, as have everyone else for years. Not having x86 is not even remotely the barrier to porting you people think it is.

I might have agreed with you a couple generations ago, but considering the current costs for game development, and most importantly, the fact that the entire industry has turned X86 into the standard... that makes Nintendo even less enticing to invest money in. Let's keep in mind how some people started getting worried about the PS4 Neo, and how it would basically force developers to put extra resources to cater to the new SKU, when they are literally based of the same architecture as the current PS4 and using the same API's. It won't take a rocket scientist to figure that opting out of X86 is doing nothing good for Nintendo in this case. They need all the ease of development they can get if they are serious about having their own platform.

In my oppinion they should just dump the R&D and manufacturing costs and just release their stuff on every other hardware under the sun (in terms of home console ofc).