| Ljink96 said: The market and demographic is much different. |
If you don't want the third party AAA crowd because you prefer to have the classic Nintendo gamer crowd, then your product will fail, and that's exactly what the Wii U did (a huge majority of Nintendo gamers bought the consoel now, but it's still nothing). For a home console to be popular, you need to give something for all kind of demographics. The Nintendo hardcore fans are a small market, too small for a home console to be successful without other demographics. And several demographics have everything they need on PS4 and Xbox One, so the NX need to offer something interesting for them too.
The NX will surely sell pretty well for its handheld part anyway, but if they split the 2 (home console on one SKU and handheld on another), then one SKU will massively outsell the other. And if they don't split the 2, then the overall console could be too expensive for the handheld market. We'll see how they manage this, but it's a tough balance act and Nintendo had some trouble with marketing and decisison-making lately...
