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Soundwave on 28 November 2019
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Wyrdness said:
Soundwave said:
PS4 ... I mean PS4 is in its 6th going into 7th year and it's still getting new IP like Cyberpunk and next year they'll get Final Fantasy VII Remake, which is a huge title ... Nintendo just can't have that level of software support for 6-7 years with the same 7 or 8 Nintendo IP over and over again it hits saturation point and 3rd parties don't really help out after that.

Both have room for price cuts as Sony hasn't brought the PS4 down to $199.99 (full time) yet even.

GB and 3DS says otherwise, the former went on for over 10 years while the latter is finishing up with 8 years, like the GB NS has a monopoly on one side of the market unlike it and the 3DS the is only one platform for Nintendo to focus on. PS4 also gets replaced next year NS doesn't PS1 got FFIX in its final year which was a huge game it didn't stop PS2 replacing it fully.

3DS sold poorly for several years in its down cycle, Nintendo won't allow that again now that they're only a one platform (primarily) company. They had no choice but to ride the 3DS a bit even at decreased yearly shipments because the Wii U was selling even worse. That wasn't a situation they would want to be in. 

Game Boy was all but dead by 1995, that's the only reason an idea as crazy as the Virtual Boy was allowed to come to market. 

Pokemon came out of nowhere as a miracle game in Japan in 1996 and gave the Game Boy brand a second lease on life, otherwise they were working on a GB successor (Project: Atlantis) at that time. But you can't rely on pulling a new Pokemon out of your ass, that happens once every 20, maybe 30-40 years.