| DonFerrari said: Well, if NX versions of multiplats starts to routinely outsell their competitors counterparts them you can say you are right, but you are basing that on wishfull thinking. EA with lack of manpower to release ports of their sports games to NX when people here claim its easy to port and have similar architeture to PS4X1? |
My wish is for Nintendo to create the NX as system with the same technical capabilities as X1, PS4 or higher. Let's be honest here: That's not hard to do. And it's not the craziest proposition to make the NX a success.
Don't be naive about software development. Even with a good development pipeline, it takes time to train staff and do extra QA effort. And regarding EA specifically - Nintendo and EA they would have to work together on high quality middleware for the Frostbite engine that nearly everything EA makes runs on. Most of what's rumored about NX porting capability deals with Unreal Engine and the Vulkan API. The reality here is that EA has only so much time and resources to work with Nintendo to make it happen. And in year that's given us VR, PS4Pro, and the announcement of Scorpio - you can be pretty sure how EA prioritizes any extra manpower they have. It doesn't mean they're unwilling to support Nintendo - they're just not going to go full crunch mode when there's other things that serve their interest.
This is common sense- if you can't launch a platform with the biggest games from within the last month or two, it's not a good time to launch. By the time that March rolls around - FIFA, Madden, and CoD have pretty much made the mark they're gonna make - so their absence from a march launch is nbd. By moving NX out from holiday to march, they effectively given EA a whole extra year to acclimate to the NX dev environment.
I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016
