In Your Eyes: Has Nintendo Given Up On Home Consoles?

[setsunatenshi]

Soundwave said:

setsunatenshi said:
multiplats? the neo and the scorpio will come out at around the same timeframe the nx will release increasing even further the gap to Nintendo while remaining on an x86 architecture. what exactly is pointing to any kind of multiplats? unless we're talking smaller games here than can run on phones, if so, then please carry on. adding to this, the neo is a half gen increase, by the time the ps5 will be out, the nx should be on its mid-life. there's 0% chance any relevant game will be working on both consoles

PS3/360 were still able to get ports of some pretty huge PS4/XB1 titles .... Far Cry 4, Watch Dogs, DQ Heroes, NBA 2K, FIFA, Metal Gear Solid V. 

If the NX is 2x a 360/PS3 with 3-5x more RAM (2-4GB), I think some ports will be doable if the developer is willing to do the work of downscaling some assets. 

PS3 would probably still be getting most next-gen games if it had double the horsepower and 4GB of RAM instead 512MB, don't you think?

those games started production on ps3-360, but also the market had about 160M combined of those 2 consoles to possibly support these games. even so check the sales numbers on the new hardware and the old one. the incentive was there for the publishers to try and create special ports for the old consoles on userbase alone. the NX will start from 0 on both fronts, so that should make it quite clear why the comparison is not a good one.

on your other point, no i don't think the ps3 would still be getting most current gen games if it had simply double the power. why? because it was a completely different architecture than the x86 architecture that both PCs and current gen consoles use nowadays. ask yourself this, why didn't the wii u get any 3rd party support? surely it was more powerful than the ancient 360 and ps3 by the time it was released.

As things stand i'm not convinced the NX will be a more powerful console than the Wii U.