| Intrinsic said: Parity? you really need to take off those Nintendo goggles and be realistic. Having 1TF doesmt mean you have parity when you system PL is vastly different from what the rest if the industry uses. As far as third parties are concerned, they pretty much make one universal code of their game and make 3 slightly different versions of that code for the PS4/XB1/PC. If the NX is using an ARM based architecture then that means they have to make a near complete different version of their code just to support it. All for a platform competing with consoles that at the time would have well over 80M consoles on the market? Anyways, if Nintendo is going ARM, I think their reasoning is to make a WiiU like controller that has its own dedicated ARM chip built in and will play all the home console games albeit at different settings. But buying the NX will basically be like buying a handheld and a home console combined. They probably feel they can't really compete in the home market with the likes of Sony and Ms, but they know they can still dominate the mobile market. so merging both as one unit is probably what they are after. It's a gamble, but I do think it's the best shot they have at any form of relevance. It's them simply playing to their strenghts. |
You clearly know nothing about what you're talking about if you genuinely think that coding for different archicetures is as demanding as you're making it out to be in 2016, and 1TF offers nearly identical power parity to the XBO. We have engines meant to make porting this kind of stuff brainless for a reason. Unity exists for a reason. Unreal 4 is prominent for a reason.
No chance a standalone gamepad is happening. Iwata already shot down an all in one console, and thinking about it for more than two seconds makes it clear that it makes no sense. So it has two screens when you're at home, but one when you're away? How are games like Splatoon going to work on the go? If every game is required to have off TV play, that means that the controller with the screen isn't a neccessary part of the system, which makes it an unecessary added cost. If every game can be played without the screen controller, what's the point in bundling the screen controller?
No, the NX console will be a console with a screen controller. It'll be whatever is powerful enough to get PS4/XBO multiplats which Emily's rumor clearly is. It will have a handheld brother released separately at a later date. That handheld will have dual screens, and every button input that the NX console has access to and they will share a library. If you want to play games on the go, you have to buy the handheld. If you want better looking games, you buy the console. If you want both, you buy both and NX's shared ecosystem will allow you to crossbuy/save/play your games seamlessly. That's not it, but that's all that's relevent to this post.
