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thismeintiel on 27 July 2016
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zorg1000 said:
thismeintiel said:

And how did that work out for the Wii U?  You see what's great about strong 3rd party support is it fills out any droughts caused by 1st/2nd party delays or cancellations.  This is why Wii U had so many months go by without a lot of good games.  This only leads to lack of interest from core gamers, which leads to low sales.  No console that lacks strong 3rd party support has gone on to be a huge success.  Even the Wii got thrown quite a few bones, due to the amount of casuals gaming on it.  Unfortunately, a lot of that was shovelware because devs/pubs knew it was mostly casuals on the system, but it was still some form of support.  A lack of support, as well as the competitors putting out more appealing HW, is really what lead to the N64, Gamecube, and Wii U performing so poorly against its rivals.

How did having the combined support of 3DS & Wii U work out for Wii U? I hope you realize how your post makes no sense in response to what I said.

Yes, 3DS and Wii U's libraries weren't shared, though quite a few of the larger indies and Nintendo games got either ports to both systems or their own version.  Still, I was more focusing on your statement that it was more important than getting ports of PS4/XBO games.  Sorry, but that is not true.  It is very imperative that NX gets strong 3rd party support.  Otherwise, it'll become another Wii U.  There just aren't enough die hard Nintendo fans out there to make the NX a success on Nintendo games alone.

Which really makes the HW specs, if the rumor is true, underwhelming.  Sure, they are good for a HH, but this is supposed to be both a HH and a home console.  Something that will probably be close to the Wii U in real world application isn't going to pull people away from the much more powerful PS4/XBO.  If this is Nintendo's answer for next gen, it really needed to be more powerful.  Of course, that would push the price up to a place where people aren't willing to pay, $249+.  As it stands, if this is going to be a success it will definitely need to cheap.  Probably under $180 cheap.  I don't know if Nintendo is going to be able to do that given they couldn't make the Wii U HW profitable day one, even though it was using outdated HW.  We shall see, though.