| RolStoppable said: Great reasoning. As always, I love the chart which shows Nintendo's continual decline in the home console market, even though it doesn't. |
Let's not kid ourselves here. Without the Wii fluke, Nintendo has been declining in the home console market. You can try to reason this however makes you feel better, but it's a cold, hard fact. The core market has progressively moved on from Nintendo once the PS entered the scene. They were able to gain a lot of casuals with the Wii, but now that mobile gaming has stolen them away, that model isn't going to work anymore. The Wii U's, which is basically Wii 2.0 (underpowered, but cheap HW, that uses a gimmicky controller) lack of sales illustrates this extremely well.
The NX is basically Nintendo's last ditch effort to be relevant HW-wise. They are trying to combine their home and console markets with one console. The problem is, if the new rumors are true, than they have done it in the WORST way possible. Many were speculating that NX would be a home console that fell somewhere around the XBO, powerwise. May have been a little less or a little more powerful. It would also have a controller that doubled as a handheld. While I don't think it would have been successful, at all, it at least would have allowed them to have 3rd party support for a couple of years, until the PS5 came out and devs moved away from the PS4/Neo.
What we have now, again, if the rumors are true, is a gaming tablet with detachable controllers. That means the power level will be even less than what was speculated before. Maybe half an XBO. 3rd parties aren't going to want to take time to make AAA ports for an console that underpowered. This is already being proven by the fact that the NX comes out in 7 months, yet we only have like 4 games announced for it. And sure, it being weaker will mean it'll be cheaper, but its weaker HW and lack of 3rd party support for AAA, I don't see it having a very positive reception from core gamers.
