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Soundwave on 19 April 2017
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Wyrdness said:
Soundwave said:

This is easy for you to say now, but I doubt you were saying it beforehand. Fact is there was huge resistance on this board and a whole lot of "Nintendo won't do that, they've never done that before". 

I was telling Nintendo fans here that they should be paying attention to the Nvidia Tegra X1 *two years ago*:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=199146&page=1

I was talking about a hybrid like a year before the Switch unveil too:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=207717&page=1

So I've put up with a lot of "Nintendo won't do that, they'd never do that" and then you never hear a peep from those people when it does happen. 

I was getting killed by a lot of Nintendo fans here also for saying Nintendo was not going to support Wii U for 5 full years and it was not going to get its own real Animal Crossing game as such, now no one utters a peep about that either, it's just "oh yeah, it was obvious Nintendo was going to do that", like I always laugh at that because when I suggested that in the past I had several posters getting upset, so no I don't think it was as obvious as people say. 

Actually I was saying it before I even had a thread asking people to put their money where their mouths were and bet, the first thread you linked is you arguing with someone about the performance level of the chip in question not about the claims on it using Tegra and the second was you arguing with someone who was trolling the thread to bash the platform most people there aren't even attacking you like you claim apart from the person who was trolling.

Back then the were two speculated concepts going around, one was the hybrid the other was the unified software platform like IOS with a console and portable sharing one library and games scaling for the platform. People were already expecting a unified approach.

The majority of people here expected Wii U to not last 5 years from what I recall you kept arguing with the same few people over it so don't claim the whole board because that's flat out untrue.

Actually at that time hybrid, as in a singular device was not that common, most people were speculating a seperate home console and portable that played the same games. But I always looked at the concept of that Turbo Express mobile console and it always stood out as something very "Nintendo-ey". 

I'm just saying Nintendo fans are quite often wrong. I've seen it many, many times. 

You know when the Wii was just the "Revolution" and Perrin Kaplan, an actual Nintendo employee came out and said casually that the system would only be about 2-3x a GameCube in power, the backlash towards her comments was immense. A whole lot of "what a dumb bitch, she obviously doesn't know anything about hardware, Nintendo would never do that, Nintendo's never done that before".

The fanbase can be in serious denial about things quite often. Mobile games wasn't going to impact handheld sales one bit. Nintendo wasn't going to drop the 3DS price. Nintendo would never make a 3DS model without 3D. Nintendo will never add a second analog to the 3DS.  Nintendo will never make mobile games. Well ok, they'll make mobile ad apps, but not actual games. Well ok, they'll make games, but not like an actual Mario game on mobile. Nintendo won't abandon the DS/3DS clamshell design. No way is Zelda: BotW moved to NX, the list goes on and on. Under the logic "they've done that before". 

There's a whole lot of Ls to hold, Nintendo quite frequently does this their own fanbase didn't see coming at all or was vehemently in denial about beforehand. Often times the worst way to gauge what Nintendo is going to actually do is to ask their fanbase. There's a fairly established pattern by this point.