What do you think is more important for Nintendo NX to have, powerful hardware or great first year lineup?

[bigtakilla]

padib said:

bigtakilla said:

But that short term business of a strong 1st party lineup leads to your long term business strategy. 

I wish it were that simple, but in the home console market, without competing with Sony and MS, the 3rd parties will always have a reason to leave Nintendo.

It happened with the Wii, and it happened with the N64. It also would happen if Nintendo tries replicating their handheld success on home consoles. The nature of the home console market is so different, that they have to play by certain rules to guarantee their acceptance by partners and by the industry as a whole.

It's unfortunate, but it's the truth.

With userbase, the reason greatly diminishes. The Wii had some of the best third party support since the NES, SNES days.