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LuckyTrouble on 18 June 2015
spemanig said:
LuckyTrouble said:

You seem to be really confused on the wording of what the Prime director said. He said he wanted to make Prime 4  and that it would take too long dealing with the Wii U now. He then said it would likely end up on what he believed to be Nintendo's next gen gaming console which is currently speculated to be the NX. Considering the NX is likely still very hush hush outside of R&D and Nintendo heads, I have a hard time accepting that this guy who doesn't even seem to be an active Nintendo game developer anymore is somehow in the know.


You're literally making stuff up, now. He's one of the head directors at Nintendo. He is a Nintendo head. That's like saying that Aonuma doesn't know what the NX is yet. And what do you mean he isn't active? He's produced at least five games in the last 5 years.

Uh, no he isn't. He is the head of a production team, yet if you notice he has barely even produced any games in the past five years implying his production team isn't all that active. The reliability of your supposedly buletproof source is really waning here.



 

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Metallox on 18 June 2015
spemanig said:


The NX being a home console doesn't dispute it being part of a family of devices. It just means that the NX is the home console variant. I'm 100% sure there's an NXDS as well and I'm 90% sure that will launch in 2016 as well.

Winning VGChartz is referring to the fact that in January of 2014, after that financial briefing, I specifically called that that the Wii U would be replaced by a unified platform of systems launching specifically at Holiday 2016 and that would replace the Wii U and 3DS. I wasn't talking about it being a home console vs. handheld. I thought, and still think, it's both.

I'm a  bit lost here. How do you say this unified platform is going to work? 



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Frogger on 18 June 2015
BasilZero said:

You have a good point.

But it would mean less games from one single franchise :(

Like I wont be able to get Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World or Mario Kart 7 and 8 for an example.


Are you upset that there isn't a 3DS specific Smash?

No?

Same thing.



Frogger on 18 June 2015
Ninten78 said:

I'm skeptical of you're claim spemanig why couldn't Prime director be talking about Metroid Prime on future 3DS successor? Isnt the 3DS a handheld CONSOLE? HAs Nintendo ever referred to a handheld as a console too? I'm sure that 3DS successor and Wii Us are 2 different  things but the fusion aspect is similar OS.http://www.cnet.com/news/miyamoto-were-on-to-the-3ds-successor/ this link in my view somewhat shows a hint of a distinct seperate device


I mean, if you are seriously insiniating that this guy is specifically saying that he can't put the sequel to a console Trilogy on their current home console because their next handheld would be a more relevant place to put it...

...Well there's nothing more to say, really.



Frogger on 18 June 2015
theprof00 said:
Wiiu replacement, but still a tablet style controller?
Who knows? I'm just speculating. I still think a tablet makes the most sense

The second screen is definitely staying. The tablet design is going.



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Frogger on 18 June 2015
LuckyTrouble said:

Uh, no he isn't. He is the head of a production team, yet if you notice he has barely even produced any games in the past five years implying his production team isn't all that active. The reliability of your supposedly buletproof source is really waning here.


He produced at least three 3DS games not listed there in the past five years, including the original Dillon's Rolling Western. Your sources are weak.



LipeJJ on 18 June 2015

Hopefully people saying it was a tablet or whatever e get real now. I'm thinking it will fall more on the theory of NX being a family of systems: 1 handheld, 1 home console. Both having the same archtecture a communicating with each other deeply, as a bonus. It also goes in line with Iwata denying that NX would be a fusion of home console and handheld.

I'm just not really sure if the 2016 model will be a portable or a home console one. Given the lowering support for Wii U next year, I'd think it's the later. xD



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tak13 on 18 June 2015
spemanig said:
tak13 said:

I don't really get it?You say  family like''NXWIIU'' ''NXDS''?It depends on how you mean family of devices(Two well-known  people here define it,as several devices for each taste and I think you don't say that!)

We know that there will be unified os/account system(And in my opinion the handheld will be an optional controller for the home console) e.t.c that doesn't imply a hybrid!Hybrid means shared games,are you adopting that?Explain it to me,I can fathom what you claim but I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding!

How it's both while NX is a home console?


One library of games, one OS, one account system, cross save/buy/play. Two separate peiced of hardware. One home console. One handheld. Both play the same games. The NX is the console brother. The NXDS is the handheld sister. Reggie and the Prime guy are talking about the NX. That's what I mean.

I can't rule it out!I was needing a confirmation if your expectation was including one library of games!And you gave it to me!

hmmmm!I'm really curious to see how this can happen!Anyway,there will be one catridge/disk for both or two of the same game one for NX and another one for NXDS?The second is more easy and logical,the first is difficult in inplementation and in my opinion irrational,since the handheld variant I would think that won't have same power with the home console,how it will run the game that's coming in one catridge/disk which is for both,downscaling?

Still there are mechanisms for which an altering is not possible(CPU)I mean,If the game is developed to running on the  higher power cpu of the home console,there isn't way then to be playable on the  handheld console since it will  have a lower power cpu!Unless there will be a magic way or you expect the unexpected,to wit same cpu for both,hey handheld must be cheaper/affordable-reasonably priced!Or will the game be builded in the standards of the handheld console implying that they won't exploit the  bigger potential of the home console for a better version?Or it will be made to run on both,like apps on pc where are able to run from a very powerful cpu to a weaker cpu with different perfomance!That would mean no complete leveraging of the stronger cpu of the home console!

What about core pokemon games?Can see them being in  the home console too?Because,Junichi Masuda isn't very warm about a core pokemon game being on a home console...And by the aforementioned situation they will have to upend the developing of pokemon games!



Frogger on 18 June 2015
Metallox said:

I'm a  bit lost here. How do you say this unified platform is going to work? 
spemanig said:

One library of games, one OS, one account system, cross save/buy/play. Two separate peiced of hardware. One home console. One handheld. Both play the same games. The NX is the console brother. The NXDS is the handheld sister. Reggie and the Prime guy are talking about the NX. That's what I mean.


binary solo on 18 June 2015
spemanig said:

 

From a Nintendo perspective, we clearly only have strength here in the Americas, we have strength in Europe and we have strength in Japan. That isn’t true of Xbox One. We’ve also said publicly that we are already hard at work on our next home console and that’s another element we’ll be talking about much later.

http://nintendoeverything.com/reggie-on-the-skylanders-partnership-amiibo-shortages-wii-u-sales-more/#more-206431

 

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Fixed that for you Reginald.



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