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bigtakilla on 05 October 2016
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teigaga said:
bigtakilla said:

The absolute biggest flaw in your argument is #3. Essentially, if they both have the same library, how much one sells compared to the other isn't going to matter. The issue with WiiU and 3DS is when you make a game for one, you cut out any sales potential of the other (well bar the fact that some Wii U games are being ported to 3ds).

I don't think upscaling and downscaling games are going games are going to be all that hard either, making argument 4 more of a possible issue than a real solid problem. If a 3rd party dev makes a game, a single cartridge, and it's available to both audiences (handheld or home console) it makes all the difference in the world. 

Neither are flaws

No.3 essentially means that third parties will fail on the home console, since the console itself would barely sell. One of the main arguments for the NX not being a hybrid is that it'd be a weak home console and not recieve any/a lot of third party support. 

No.4 is trivial but is still relevant to Nintendo's profit margins. Instead of trying to optimise for 2 vastly different spec ranges, why not just have one system with a slightly overclocked mode for 1080p resolution and slightly prettier graphics? Either way they'd likely work from the weakest benchmark up, meaning that the 2TFLOP home console's power won't really go to full use. It just begs the question of why Nintendo should even bother. Its just another reason why one hybrid system makes more financial sense for Nintendo then 2 seperate systems. 

I'm not strongly against a standalone handhled & console each with different specs, but the person I was responding was suggesting that that it makes a lot more sense than a legit hybrid. It doesn't. 

How can you say third parties will fail on the home console, when the exact same game (minus a few effects that simply will be bypassed on the handheld, and will render at a lower resolution) will be on handheld. The point is third parties won't have to choose what they're developing for anymore. The same cart used for home console can also be put into the handheld. 

 

Breaking that barrier is what Nintendo needs to do. Not force people to buy expensive hardware for features they don't want.