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theres is no killer app we will get the usual but at a damn cheap price im talking about a 99$ console



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Darwinianevolution said:
spemanig said:
Darwinianevolution said:

It's a dificult thing to say, we don't know a thing about its hardware. We know the NX will have dozens of system sellers if it is the Fusion: 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Smash, Splatoon... that's for sure.


I don't think it will be really based around showing off the hardware. Like, I'm sure it'll have something to show off the new scroll bumpers and stuff, but it'll be pretty strong, will have a gamepad, and will likely have a standard button layout. I think that's all we need to make guesses. I don't think it'll have a system selling hardware gimmick, but a firmware gimmick. I think they'll try and make a game that is heavy handed in showing why stuff like the membership program, a unified platform, and the whole "smart console" consept is cool, and how it can be applied effectively to games.

Maybe some MMORPG? If everyone has membership programs, the NX has enough power, Nintendo steps up its game in the online servers part, and you can acces to it both on home console and handheld (maybe phone too, for something small?), a MMORPG could work. Imagine a Zelda Windwaker-like MMORG, or a Xenoblade MMORPG.


Or that Pokemon MMORPG everyones been asking for U:



Nintendo all -star RPG. Where all nintendo franchises merge into one epic huge game. with RPG merged with zelda/mario style 3D gameplay. All Nintendo villains are doing some sort of evil plan, but its actualyl a genius plan with amazing story. and all the heroes must come together and defeat them. and final boss will be UBER MEGA SUPER UNIVERSE BOWSER, who will be the most powerfull boss ever made and most epic music will play when you fight him, and will be the best boss battle ever created.



I have a theory about those scroll wheel "bumpers". We can't really tell from the patent, but what if those are to "add" more buttons to the system? What if you can press a quick switch button on the back, scroll to a button letter, and then lock that button in place and assign an action to it? This could offer 4 or 5 buttons PER bumper, or offer new playstyle experiences via "free wheeling" where the bumper(s) are not locked in place, but are used for scrolling, zooming, etc.
The new killer app could be something to help show off this new control style, where maybe you're looking through a scope to either search for things or shoot things, and you use the wheels for precision aim. You get on a certain aiming plane, and then you scroll a click or two with the left bumper to zoom in, and scroll a click or two with the right bumper to slowly move left or right. Say a stealth/spy game where you have to gather intel, or take out a target using targeting equipment or a scope or something. Another application this could have is quick adjustments or item switching in games, which they could really use with a huge variety of titles. If it sticks, I'm going to say that Zelda will use it for a few puzzles as well where you have to use the scrolling wheels to balance left and right across a log or rope, or where maybe you slide blocks or something into a panel on the left and are trying to match patterns doing the same with the right.
There are a lot of applications this COULD have, and the locking button thing would obviously be self-explanatory, but regardless, I think that Nintendo will do something completely outside of what I just thought of. These would be applications for things that I can think of, not the geniuses at Nintendo, I'm sure they have much bigger and better plans.



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I'm gonna go crazy and predict some sort of Mario......racer maybe.



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KLXVER said:
I'm gonna go crazy and predict some sort of Mario......racer maybe.


With Karts?



AEGRO said:
KLXVER said:
I'm gonna go crazy and predict some sort of Mario......racer maybe.


With Karts?


Could be karts, yes...



Darwinianevolution said:

Maybe some MMORPG? If everyone has membership programs, the NX has enough power, Nintendo steps up its game in the online servers part, and you can acces to it both on home console and handheld (maybe phone too, for something small?), a MMORPG could work. Imagine a Zelda Windwaker-like MMORG, or a Xenoblade MMORPG.


While I think it can be massively multiplayer, I don't think it can be that type of hardcore genre. That type of game just doesn't have the type of wide appeal necessary to be killer app successful. Again, I think it will be super casual. Not Wii Sports casual, but maybe Nintendogs or Animal Crossing casual. There's depth, and it's feature rich, but it isn't this hardcore game with complex systems like a typical MMO has.



Luke888 said:
I really think that if NX has those Triggers we've seen a few weeks ago Spla2n might do the trick, There is already a pretty good fanbase which is constantly growing, if they add some modes that let you change weapons with those triggers and a few new fresh ideas I think it might sell A LOT. Plus seeing how Pokémon is building up on multiple devices I'm really interest to see how well the first 7th gen games will do, we all know that there are people waiting for a main series Pokémon game to play on a home console (supposing that NX is an hybrid)


I think Splatoon 2 would sell well, but I 100% don't think that a shooter of any kind is what will be the killer app. If you don't like shooters, or if you don't care for Splatoon's brand of gameplay, you won't buy an NX for it, and that's a lot of people. Splatoon might be good, but it doesn't have nearly the kind of killer app potential that games like Nintendogs or Brain Age had. The appeal is just not wide enough.

While I think Pokemon could be a killer app for the NX, I just don't think it will be a launch game, to I'm not even considering it.



fleischr said:
Odds are it'll be something that has inter-play between one of their better quality, high visibility mobile titles.

So prime candidates would be Animal Crossing, Tomodachi Life, and Pokemon -- something that can bring Miiverse activity into the larger sphere of social media.

I think you're on the right track, but I think it'll be a completely new IP. I think they'll want to attatch the NX hardware brand to that IP in a similar fashion to how they did the same with Wii Sports and the Wii or Nintendogs/Brain Age and the DS.