HylianYoshi said:
I'm sure that wouldn't bankrupt them. But, would your supposed dream console be powerful to enough to support current third party games? Something I didn't take into account. |
No, it wouldn't. I don't think Nintendo is ever going to get back the third party support that it enjoyed with the GC. If Nintendo makes a piece of cutting edge hardware, then it will be too expensive and Nintendo's AAA titles will take too long to make. If Nintendo makes a last gen system, then third party won't support it, but the AAA titles will come out in a timely fashion. Just look at the first 18 months of the Wii. We got... Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Galaxy, Smash, and Kart. That wouldn't have happened if the Wii was as powerful as the PS3/360. Dev times would have added an extra six months to a year to the end of each title.
Just imagine the GC2 launching instead of the Wii. It launches with no good AAA games, costs $500 at launch, and we don't see a single good game until 2008. Third party doesn't support it, because developers already wrote Nintendo off years ago. Having no good AAA games, and no third party support sales of the system are horrible for the first 18 months. After that the death spiral continues and Nintendo leaves the console market. The Wii strategy saved Nintendo from impending doom.
