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SHOULD THEY?

Yes 48 18.25%
 
Nope 214 81.37%
 
Total:262

Not as long as their consoles remain profitable.



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Mr Khan said:
DerpSandwich said:
Eventually. Maybe two generations from now when even a handheld can have insane power and no one even cares to have it higher (at least not on a Nintendo platform), I could see them making a handheld that can hook to your TV and support extra controllers. There will come a point when having two separate machines won't make sense anymore. Having an all-in-one system would be pretty awesome.

We could get close to that next generation, anyway. A handheld that can run Wii U games at half the resolution, with a home console serving as an integrated environment (storefront, crossbuy on all possible titles, make all possible titles dual-platform, give a discount for buying handheld and console together).

I could sort of see it happening next generation, but I feel like it would benefit from the longer wait.  Too soon and they would have to cheap out on stuff like the battery and the screen, and I would prefer 1080p capability on the thing.  Enough power to have everything smoothed out and in place rather than having to make a bunch of compromises, basically.  One perfect console with a perfect online ecosystem.  Man, one can dream...



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Devil_Survivor said:
Did you leave out the DS and Wii lol? Also should you add the SNES sales to the N64 given the fact the gameboy existed during both of those consoles complete lives?


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etking said:
Mobile phones completely destroyed the handheld market, there is no future at all. Just look at the poor 3DS and Vita sales.


Can you please explain how 3DS has "poor" sales when it continues to outsell PS4?



I like Nintendos consoles so far, so I would want them to continue making them.



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Intrinsic said:
Smear-Gel said:
Nope. The hardware and software is not the problem. It's the perception. And anything that will confirm the negative perception rather than turn it around is a terrible idea.

"Their" software may not be the problem but their "hardware"  is. Having significantly weaker hardware literally limits their market to only the nintendo faithful who will buy their console even if it was powered by peanuts. It also means that theer will be little to no third party support. And if the GC and now wiiU should have thought them anything, its that you can't succeed off your first party alone.

A dev considering making a port of a PS4/XB1 game to the wiiU is basically faced with porting their game over to hardware that is around 8 times less powerful and lacks the install base incentive to make that kinda ort worth it. Just imagine if the WiiU was at least as powerful as the XB1 this gen, got all the multiplat games that will come to the PS4/XB1 and also had all their great first party titles. And also had an online service on par with both. It would be a very very very different conversaton we are all having now about nintendo.

Nintendo are just not competeing on so many different levels. 

 

Except no, the power cant be the problem because even PS360 games arent being developed for it. And games being made for the X1/PS4 are being made for the "less powerful that WII U" PS/360. The Wii U isnt underpowered to the point where no 3rd party games could work on it.

The install base inscentive is another thing though. Which brings me back to perception. Many developers think the Wii U lacks the fanbase for thier games because they are mature. Many Nintendo gamers have the perception that they wont be buying 3rd parties in the first place because there wont be any. Changing the perception of the console, the fanbase, the games on it, and Nintendo in general is far more important than more power.

Also, I'm fairly certain the Gamecube was more powerful than the PS2 and look where that got them.



I voted nope because there was no option for them to go handheld and third party console-wise.



-CraZed- said:
I voted nope because there was no option for them to go handheld and third party console-wise.


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ExplodingBlock said:
-CraZed- said:
I voted nope because there was no option for them to go handheld and third party console-wise.


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Doh. I wanna change my vote.



ExplodingBlock said:
Devil_Survivor said:
Did you leave out the DS and Wii lol? Also should you add the SNES sales to the N64 given the fact the gameboy existed during both of those consoles complete lives?


Read it again


Ah I see, well I'm off to get my eyes checked.