Emily Rogers: NX Below XB1/PS4 In Power; Battery Life Is Not Great

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Soundwave said:

thismeintiel said:

Exactly. This is why I would prefer them to go 3rd party. It has nothing to do with wanting them to fail. On the contrary, I'd like to see them become one of the largest 3rd party devs/pubs around. 

I mean, could you imagine how awesome a true sequel to Mario RPG and/or 64 could be when it's not held back by their HW choices. On a Neo, for example. And they would no longer have to worry about developing HW that appeals to decreasing number of people.

The downside to that is a lot of Nintendo IP would likely get shelved forever. 

Nintendo wouldn't bother to make a game like Punch-Out or Pilotwings or Kid Icarus ... they make these types of games now because they have to support an entire platform. Probably something like Splatoon likely wouldn't get made either. 

As a third party they'd just become like EA and all these other shitty companies and just pump out Mario Kart, Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, and nothing but every 1-2 years because that's all that would sell and they're under no obligation to diversify their library as they have no platform to really support. 

Look at how much more diverse and great Sega's software was when they had to support the Dreamcast versus what it became as a third party.

on top of that i could see Sony & Microsoft getting into bidding wars trying to get various exclusives, meaning i would likely have to own both a Playstation & Xbox to get Nintendo's full output.