| zorg1000 said: Well at this point I dont think it matters what I say, you have convinced yourself that releasing a $300-400 console that plays the same games as PS4/Neo/XBO/Scorpio/PC is the best course of action. |
That's not what I am saying at all.
What I want is Nintendo Exclusives PLUS the 3rd party's the other consoles get with a similar degree of graphical fidelity and no silly controller gimmicks.
Apparantly I am not allowed to wish for such a thing?
| Soundwave said: Home console market is oversaturated, Nintendo is being smart in doubling down on their area of strength where they have no direct competetion -- gaming portables. |
Nintendo does have competition with Portables though.
You have the Vita (lol), Android, iOS, heck even Windows Phone.
Fact of the matter is, Android and iOS now rule the mobile gaming world... The 3DS's slower sales rate is likely attributed to that and that might also impact the NX.
| Soundwave said: They are even smarter if they adopt Android apps (and there's no reason not to since they themselves support Android with games now, how is Android Nintendo's enemy when it's spurring Nintendo's biggest piece of software in over a decade with Pokemon Go?). |
Bringing up Android Apps is silly, you have no idea if that is even their intention... More like "hoping" it happens.
Pokemon Go isn't owned by Nintendo. Heck it wasn't even made by Nintendo... So why assume that will be the standard for all Nintendo games going forward? Or be some kind of precedent that will determine Nintendo's future success? Wishfull thinking perhaps?
| Soundwave said: It's likely if done correctly this system will dominate even the PS4 in Japan, thus ensuring lots of Japanese support at least too. Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Resident Evil, Tekken, etc. I'd be fine with that. Mobile tech has exploded so rapidly in the last 4-5 years that the level of chip Nintendo can now get will allow for gorgeous huge 3D games on the go, the Vita chip was OK, but even a Tegra X1 absolutely destroys that. |
I hope the NX does well, I would hate for Nintendo to be forced out of the market, that would be bad for all consumers, competition is a good thing, it keeps prices low, keeps innovation rapidly going.
But to imply that it will dominate the competition is a little far-fetched considering it hasn't even launched, don't you think?
Many claimed the 3DS and WiiU would dominate, well. They failed to live up to the hype didn't they?
| Soundwave said: NX will likely have one of the best if not the best mobile processors in the world (Tegra X1 is already one of the best, if Nintendo is using Pascal Tegra X2, that is going to be far better even), so there's nothing about the hardware that we have heard thus far that implies mediocre hardware. |
Tegra might be a fantastic mobile chip, but it's far from being as capable of meeting a degree of expectation that we are seeing out of this generation graphically... I think people are being unrealistic about it's capabilities based purely on it's theoretical 1 Teraflop advertised number being flaunted around.
Tegra will struggle meeting 1080P levels of AAA imagry... And if the fanaticism that we have observed since the Playstation 4's launch is anything to go by... That may be damaging to the NX on a whole.
The Wii and Wii U also suffered from bad specs and was ridiculed because of it from many corners of the gaming world, those consoles also aged extremely quickly resulting in fairly short cycles, that may have an impact on sales.
Fact of the matter is... Tegra cannot hold a candle to multi Billion-transister monolithic AMD APU's with TDP's of 150w+ or more, personally i think graphically the Xbox One and Playstation 4 have both been unimpressive... Considering that Tegra will likely not be able to achieve even half the level of the plain, jane, old Xbox One... It doesn't instill much faith.
Nintendo need to pull out all the stops and attract not just the casuals, but the enthusiast/hardcore as well and with the NX I just don't see that happening at this stage.
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