Meant to post this on here instead to of another thread... TOO MANY NX THREADS! lol


What if NX works like a regular console and Nintendo's next handheld can be used as an add on to use as a controller with second screen advantages like the Wii U? Third parties won't have to deal with the whole two screens thing, and Nintendo can choose to support those features with their own content?

Buy the Zelda game for NX and play it with a normal controller (or Wii U gamepad if it supports it?) or you can also have dual screen features if you use the new handheld. Buy whatever Zelda game for the new handheld, and it adds more features and new ways to play with your home console experience. One feature could be associated with street pass or getting new perks from playing outside, and the other could just from having both games.

I think this idea could keep Nintendo continuing to innovate, while avoiding issues with third parties porting games, and potential buyers feeling turned off from being forced into playing with gimmicks they want nothing to do with.

I don't. If anything, Nintendo releasing their next console so shortly after the Wii U(if it comes out in 2016) would further alienate their fans AND developers who are putting out games towards the end of the Wii U's lifecycle much like EA severed support for Sega after they cut Saturn support for the Dreamcast.

The only way to get them on board, is to prove that their games will SELL on the NX. If it does much lower compared to PS4 and XONE, then dont expect them to get on this NX train.

If the NX is within 15% performance ( above or below ) the ps4/xbo it will get sporadic third party support, if its any lower it wont, the other problem is, most won't consider it unless there is genuine suggestion that the userbase will explode, and most third parties would rather take a wait and see approach.

If it launches smack bang in the middle of the ps4/xbo life cycle, its launching at the worst possible time for third party support.

I don't, but I want to believe that they can win some of the third parties back. Full support is going to take two generations of providing an easy to develop for platform that generates a large user-base (40m plus LT).

If it's cheap to port to, and capable of running their games without significant scale-down, then their decision becomes about the install base. If a company can't break a million units selling to 5% or less of a console's population (1 in 20 gamers), they aren't likely to put many games on that machine.

Third parties know that they aren't going to get "Mario Kart"-level attach rates of their games on Nintendo systems, so if a 10-15% attach rate doesn't translate into a massive hit, they're not going to spend the resources to make software for it.

I don't think so, but if they improve they could get some of the 3rd Party devs back..

I can feel it deep in my balls, Spurge. Deep, deep in my loins.

I don't think the NX will have full 3rd party support, too many big studios seem happy developing for three platforms already, and don't need a fourth one. However, mobile developers might be interested in the NX, so we could have a ton of indies and japanese developers in full support. And I'm fine with that.

I don't think Nintendo really cares about "full third party support", in fact Iwata has even said they don't want full third party support (lol) when asked in the past.

I think Nintendo would be happy with basically what the Wii U was getting its first year plus the level of support the 3DS already gets from Japanese third parties.

Though I think Nintendo is worried about losing Japanese 3rd party portable developers to smartphones/tablets. That is a concern.

It wont have FULL 3rd party support since Ubisoft and others hate Nintendo.

BUT Nintendo must push for large 3rd party support at the start or it never will regain it until the gen after.