Miguel_Zorro said:
I really hope Nintendo does compete on power. The console is coming out 3 years later. It should be at least as powerful as the PS4, if not more powerful. It also needs a system architecture that makes it easy for 3rd parties to program on. Nintendo isn't going to thrive on 1st party games alone.
The Wii sold like gangbusters. If you take it out of the equation, every Nintendo home console from the Super Nintendo through to the WiiU has sold less than the one before it. Nintendo needs to make a splash with their next home console. |
Well the Wii was the only really big successful console that Nintendo has had in 20 years or so, and was maybe a 50% performance increase over the GameCube. So from that POV it probably isn't much of a shock they will try the gimmick approach again. I think this time it will be aimed more at kids than casuals though, Nintendo knows casuals are all smartphone crazy now, but they may still have a shot at a new generation of kids.
It may also simply be Nintendo getting so frustrated with the console market that they simply decided to make the handheld function as a console basically. We've reached the point today where that is easily possibly from a tech level. You just won't get PS4 graphics, but I think Nintendo also has a bone to pick with that too -- they don't want PS4 level budgets for their games.
From a game maker's POV I can sort of see the logic ... they're selling the same number of games generation to generation, but the development cost of them gets higher and higher, meaning less and less profit. It's a cycle that Nintendo likely doesn't want to perpetuate.
