| shikamaru317 said: I personally would have liked to see them try their hand at an actual, proper next-gen console; no silly tablet controller gimmicks, no cheesy name, just a standard controller and a console, Gamecube 2.0 essentially. About 1 tflop should have been possible for $350 in 2012, considering PS4 was 1.8 tflop for $400 just a year later. Sure it wouldn't have been a huge success like Switch, being the weakest 8th gen system, but taking into account the 1 year headstart over Sony and MS, the fact that the specs would have been high enough for 720p on the same games that XB1 played at 900p and PS4 at 1080p, and the price advantage over PS4 and XB1, I think it would have sold a respectable amount, more than Gamecube at least, and alot more than Wii U. |
Actually, history shows 3rd-parties don't trust Nintendo when they do somethign similar to the others. They flock with their standard games to Playstation and maybe Xbox. So to succeed Nintendo must draw in the userbase on their own (and if they are successful some 3rd-parties may come). And Nintendo usually isn't played for the same games as PS and XB. So Nintendo need to do different games. And how to differentiate better than with a different input scheme. So no, if Nintendo had made just a powerful console with standard input, they had failed as bad as WiiU, maybe worse. They need to offer something different, so users see value in getting the device.
