What I want from Nintendo

[Cerebralbore101]

HylianYoshi said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

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. 

Nintendo doesn't need power to rival the Scorpio/NEO. They would get a good amount of third party support off of having the same specs as the current PS4/XB1 consoles, considering there are no exclusives being made for their more powerful counter parts. At that point, Nintendo wouldn't have to rely entirely on first party support, though it would be the cornerstone of their strategy. Because they would have the new Pikmin, Mario, and Zelda games to come out for it on launch year, along with remasters of important Wii U games, and third party games. All of that is enticing to the average consumer. And they could ship that out for like $350, no big deal. Same as current PS4 prices.

I think an NX that is only as powerful as the PS4 would qualify as last gen. That isn't a cutting edge piece of hardware that breaks the bank. I don't think devs would bother to port anything over to the NX, PS4 specs or not. Let's say the NX sells 5 million units in the first year. That is fantastic. But from a dev's perspective that isn't enough of a base to cover the costs of doing a port. Why bother throwing all that money into an NX port of Doom, when you already have 60 million combined customers on the PS4/XB1?