Eurogamer: NX is different, and different is Nintendo´s best option (bit of a long text)

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Einsam_Delphin said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

You can try to manipulate this in any way you want, it is not a home console. Comparing it to XBOX and Playstation is completely incorrect. It should be compared to 3DS and PSVita. It is an evolution of that department and not Wii U, Playstation, or XBOX.

 

And to your last statement, you have no vision. If this rumor is true and this is their next hand held, Nintendo MUST make a home console that is above the standards of the day (when it releases) in order to convince people like you or I to buy it. Otherwise, people will say, "what is the point" and stick with their hand held hybrid. Nintendo has backed themselves into a corner. And maybe that is not such a bad thing after all. We all want a powerhouse home console from Nintendo anyway. 

 

You're right, it's technically a hybrid, but what that means is if someone wants to use it purely as a home console, they can, thus it's not wrong to consider it a home console as much as you say it's handheld. It can be as much or as little as either, it all up to the customer.

Are we even talking about the same rumor, cause they say it's not just a handheld, it's a portable console, a hybrid, thus it's already replacing both 3DS and Wii U. The hybrid system can be used as a home console, so what's the point of making a separate dedicated home console on top of that? You even admit this yourself, there is no point, so naturally they're not going to make them anymore.

I see where the disconnect it. I consider portable console to mean, "hand held" as it has traditionally. I still see it as a hand held because of what is rumored about it. It uses cartridges and has a docking station but not a home console station. The hardware seems next gen for a portable/hand held and it uses cartridges like all Nintendo portables/hand helds. I do not know if you are correct or not so I will drop that until I find out more. I am looking at it as a hand held that can be attached to the television (ala a more literal Super Game Boy) and you are thinking of it as a console on the go. Interesting how that worked out. It looks like the successor to the 3DS, not the Wii U. I could be wrong and it has me scratching my head because I undestand it differently than you do. But I still think I am more correct.

Again, it being a hand held that can be docked to a television is important because of the game franchises and third party support that may appear. Third party developers will develop for a new Nintendo hand held with those specs. They will reject a home console with those specs, however. And that is the point of the console.

I did not say anywhere that there is no point in Nintendo making a new home console. I specifically said Nintendo has backed themselves into a corner because if their next home console is not a beast of a machine, nobody will want to buy it when they have this hand held which can do almost the same thing from a power perspective. Their next console must be the strongest released in that moment in order to seperate itself even further from this hand held which you keep thinking is a home console. And we all want that from Nintendo anyway; a home console that rocks in terms of power.

And this is also important because if Nintendo makes a home console that does exactly that, maybe they will get third party support on home consoles again. This is a twisted corner they are painted into, but hopefully they make the correct decisions going forward. If this is true.