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

[setsunatenshi]

KLXVER said:

setsunatenshi said:

that makes no sense... why wouldn't the ps4 and xb1 not get any games? both consoles, as far as we know, literally share the same library of games, existing and upcoming. Same architecture, just upgraded with more recent components. When I upgrade my pc's gfx card, motherboard and CPU, do my old games stop working? No? Why not then?

If they can be downgraded to PS4 and XB1, then why not put it on the NX?

why not on a PS2? why not on an SNES? why not on an Atari 2600? Why not on a Texas Instruments calculator?

 

because being underpowered is only 1 of the reasons, the main reason is different architectures would require the developers to dedicate a specific team to code the game in specific for this exotic architecture that no one uses.

it's all about cost/benefit.

also, it's not 'downgraded' to ps4/xb1, the games are made specifically for those platforms, and then, given what we know, taking advantage of the better performing machines, those should get stuff like higher res textures, better AA, better shadowing, better frame rates possibly.

just thing of these machines as you would of a gaming pc. just because you can have different components inside, because the main architecture is the same, the games don't need a special port for each of the configurations each person may have. it's a very simplistic way of putting it, but should get the basic idea behind "why not put it on the NX?"