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Metalheadgamer on 31 January 2014

Nice. I like your thoughts on that. And this why I believe that each generations (starting from 8) will last 10 YEARS! 10 - YEARS!

And I have a question. If nintendo does unify both platforms, that means the handheld becomes a controller, right? A controller that you purchase just like that?



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TheLastStarFighter on 04 February 2014

It is - of course - premature to say that Nintendo will win Gen 9 since we really don't know what they have planned. Iwata has hinted at a number of things, but hasn't been concrete on much at all. Some things we need to know:

-What is the QoL product?
-What company does Nintendo plan to acquire?
-What will be the impact of Nintendo's merged home/handheld hardware divisions?
-Will the QoL product link with the game devices?
-When will this Gen 9 product launch?
-What is the fate of Wii U?

I can see a best case scenario where Nintendo launches a new product next year which becomes the next big craze like Wii was, or even iPhones. They buy out a respected software maker like Square Enix. They launch a sleek new system with state of the art features in 2016 that has lots of processing power, is launched with lots of cool software and is associated with their hit QoL product so people want it like iPhone owners wanted iPads. But this is all speculation.

I only hope that Nintendo is really planning this out, because they really dropped the ball on Wii U despite lots of time and money available to them. Having a unified OS for their future products could potentially speed up software development, but I wouldn't say it would be a huge factor for winning the Gen, in and of itself.



sales2099 on 04 February 2014

Well technically you are right in that WiiU is still the market leader.

But thing with time.....it doesn't stop.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

johnlucas on 05 February 2014
padib said:

Hello friends.

With all the announcements heard today, there is no longer a shadow of a doubt that Nintendo will be highly successful in gen 9.

The greatest wildcards so far were:

  • How will Nintendo merge its portable and home console software so as to avoid having to ensure momentum on two platforms?

This is now resolved with the merged API and OS for Nintendo's upcoming console platforms.

  • How will Nintendo contend with competition from the mobile industry?

Nintendo has revealed that they are already prepping mobile platform starter introductions to their current and new consoles, as well as entering into a whole new business (Quality of Life).

 

With that covered, here is how gen 9 will play out for Nintendo:

  • With R&D expenses unified under one cohesive system of platforms, Nintendo greatly saves on R&D costs and time to market for both platforms.
  • Nintendo games will be sufficient to support the twin systems as of launch, allowing Nintendo to find comfortable momentum from start to finish.
  • Transitions to gen 10 platforms will no longer require two transitions to 2 consoles, the same unified transition will be much better supported by software and community base (unified community base).
  • Nintendo will increase its audience by means of its new QoT business, increasing awareness of its brands and products/services in both businesses.
  • 3rd parties become accessory to Nintendo and the Nintendo dream at last comes true.

Thank you for dreaming, and luckily: we win.


Everybody's always looking for the "Next-Gen".
Generation 8 has just begun & it is THAT what we need to deal with right now.

Generation 8 is NOT lost for Nintendo & all Generation 9 will be is the Aftermath of what Nintendo accomplishes in this generation, Generation 8.

There's a REASON why the rumored name is called Fusion.
What is Fusion if it is not the result of a Unity?

Wii U leads to that Fusion.

Think about how much the Wii U Gamepad almost seems like a portable in itself.
But don't put your cart before the horse.
There's much more pioneering to do with Wii U.

3rd parties UNITE with Nintendo in Generation 8 before they are automatically accessory to Nintendo in Generation 9.
John Lucas



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WE ARE THE NATION...OF DOMINATION!

 

ninetailschris on 05 February 2014
-CraZed- said:
padib said:
-CraZed- said:
I just don't see it. Even of Nintendo drops a new system before the halfway mark of the two current "next-gen" consoles it will be more expensive and competing with capable mature consoles that have already had decent price drops and high demand.

If anything the next Nintendo console will be a mild success in that case.

Now if they continue to ride out the WiiU disaster until a year or two before the other two bigs drop their new consoles that might be a different story. But, then they'll be in the same predicament as they were with the WiiU, people holding off to see what MS and/or Sony are pushing out.

I really feel Nintendo is in a no win situation right now. But hey, things can change and Nintendo might drop some mind melting hardware on us and change the whole game.

Nintendo doesn't really compete with Sony and Microsoft.

I'm sorry but you are wrong. Unless you mean they are no longer in the same league as MS and Sony at this point.

They sell video game consoles and video games do they not? Sony and MS also sell video game consoles and video games do they not? Then they are competing directly.

Also, they are a business looking to make money just like every other company and therefore Nintendo competes with ANY other for profit business for consumers' disposable income. Doubly so with regards to MS and Sony's video game divisions.


They are in different markets within the market.

There are products in divisions for family and than the more hardcore. if you are making cooking momma I highly doubt your aiming for call of duty crowd. The whole, everything is your enemy, isn't how it actual markets work.



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NightDragon83 on 05 February 2014

Funniest thing I've read all day. Thanks for the laugh.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

Dulfite on 06 August 2020
padib said:
Killerbee23 said:
LMAO

Joke's on you.

Indeed, it was and is.

Gloriously accurate prediction except for QOL.



JWeinCom on 06 August 2020

I'd chime in with an I told you so, but I had serious doubts that the Switch would be a success.



Manlytears on 06 August 2020



JWeinCom on 06 August 2020
padib said:
Dulfite said:

Indeed, it was and is.

Gloriously accurate prediction except for QOL.

Yeah, Nintendo trolled us with that. But waaait, there's RFA! And there was Pokemon GO!

JWeinCom said:
I'd chime in with an I told you so, but I had serious doubts that the Switch would be a success.

Nintendo had so many good ideas that they executed badly, you would have been right to be doubtful. Such subtle things bothered some of Nintendo's best ideas, that to guess Nintendo's success is a bit like looking into a crystal ball. Like the WiiU's failure was a stepping stone to the switch, and its features were just a tad unripe with a tethered tablet and confusion about multiple tablets and succession to the Wii, the 3D of the 3DS made it trip a bit. So the Switch could've failed, but it would have been very hard to make it fail with a unified library. I guess my prediction was based on a gut feel of Nintendo bouncing back and rectifying the mistakes it had admitted to have made (and Iwata taking a very noble salary cut) and a sense that to me, if the libraries were unified, it was basically unstoppable.

To drive the point, while the unified library output is great on the switch, I expected a bit of a stronger punch. A lot of the big sellers are revamped WiiU games (MK8Deluxe, Smash Ultimate, NSMBU Deluxe) or end of life U games (Breath of the Wild), so I am expecting a bigger wave of true Switch games like Odyssey, Animal Crossing NH, Pokemon S/S, RFA, SPM Origami King, Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!/Eevee!, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Party, Luigi's Mansion 3, Mario Maker 2 and the other top sellers. Still it's a very decent output so far only 3.5 years in, and the sales are fantastic.

I actually thought Wii U would do really well and I got burned XD. Part of the reason I was so hesitant about the Switch.

I still maintain the Gamepad was a good idea. But... by the first E3 I was like "Oh... they have no idea what to actually do with that thing do they?" and saw the writing on the wall. I still think there's a lot more they could have done with that thing. 

Manlytears said:

Eh, normally necrobumping is a no-no, but I think with prediction topics it's ok. If you can't bump predictions, what's the point?