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Soundwave on 23 January 2016
wombat123 said:
Soundwave said:

The thing is the PSNow service isn't that successful. What works against Nintendo for a dedicated console (a very centralized library of family friend styled games) with a heavy dose of nostalgia may actually work well for them in a service like them.

Whereas Sony is more known for a wide variety of big budget, modern games ... people just prefer the regular Playstation I think over the PSNow. I think this concept would work better for Nintendo which has a more "cohesive" universe and doesn't really have to work about the third parties, that's Sony's problem with PSNow is how do you divvy up PSNow profits to third parties, Nintendo doesn't have that issue as they alone can support a streaming service by themselves if they have to. 

Maybe that is a "tier" of what NX is.

Free/Streaming NX - $89.99
Hardware cost (For small receiver + controller w/Amiibo NFC reader)

Dedicated Console NX - $299-$349.99

Dedicated Portable NX - $219.99

Now why would Sony/MS allow this on this systems? Maybe they won't ... and there's a good chance Nintendo may not want it either. Buuuuut, what happens say if Microsoft allows it? Suddenly the XBox One has Nintendo games and the Playstation doesn't, so Sony would kinda be forced to match.

Nintendo could actually use the two of them against each other to be able to have their network service available on both systems without giving either one a dime just for feature parity sake. AppleTV could support this service too.

Say $7-$10/month for NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, Wii U, DS, 3DS, GBA, GB and NX titles ala carte, Nintendo could control it so that newer NX games maybe come a little later for people who have just the streaming service and cycle older games around. But I think a lot of people who aren't buying Nintendo consoles right now would bite. 

Unless Nintendo has purchased a cloud based gaming company or somehow built up the costly infrastructure for one without anyone finding out, then I can't see Nintendo utilizing a streaming service anytime soon.

They did have those patents for a cloud-based service a couple of weeks ago ...

Doesn't Nvidia have a game streaming service too? Nintendo is bigger than Nvidia ($18 billion vs. $8 billion or so). 



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Ruler on 23 January 2016

I doubt it



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wombat123 on 23 January 2016
Soundwave said:
wombat123 said:
Soundwave said:

The thing is the PSNow service isn't that successful. What works against Nintendo for a dedicated console (a very centralized library of family friend styled games) with a heavy dose of nostalgia may actually work well for them in a service like them.

Whereas Sony is more known for a wide variety of big budget, modern games ... people just prefer the regular Playstation I think over the PSNow. I think this concept would work better for Nintendo which has a more "cohesive" universe and doesn't really have to work about the third parties, that's Sony's problem with PSNow is how do you divvy up PSNow profits to third parties, Nintendo doesn't have that issue as they alone can support a streaming service by themselves if they have to. 

Maybe that is a "tier" of what NX is.

Free/Streaming NX - $89.99
Hardware cost (For small receiver + controller w/Amiibo NFC reader)

Dedicated Console NX - $299-$349.99

Dedicated Portable NX - $219.99

Now why would Sony/MS allow this on this systems? Maybe they won't ... and there's a good chance Nintendo may not want it either. Buuuuut, what happens say if Microsoft allows it? Suddenly the XBox One has Nintendo games and the Playstation doesn't, so Sony would kinda be forced to match.

Nintendo could actually use the two of them against each other to be able to have their network service available on both systems without giving either one a dime just for feature parity sake. AppleTV could support this service too.

Say $7-$10/month for NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, Wii U, DS, 3DS, GBA, GB and NX titles ala carte, Nintendo could control it so that newer NX games maybe come a little later for people who have just the streaming service and cycle older games around. But I think a lot of people who aren't buying Nintendo consoles right now would bite. 

Unless Nintendo has purchased a cloud based gaming company or somehow built up the costly infrastructure for one without anyone finding out, then I can't see Nintendo utilizing a streaming service anytime soon.

They did have those patents for a cloud-based service a couple of weeks ago ...

Doesn't Nvidia have a game streaming service too? Nintendo is bigger than Nvidia ($18 billion vs. $8 billion or so). 

You're right, Nintendo does have that supplementary device patent but it seems more like something to be used specifically for Nintendo hardware and we don't even know if Nintendo would actually use it (I hope they do someday).  Nvidia does have a streaming service but I have no idea how many subscribers they have or how many their service can handle.





Soundwave on 23 January 2016
wombat123 said:
Soundwave said:
wombat123 said:
Soundwave said:

The thing is the PSNow service isn't that successful. What works against Nintendo for a dedicated console (a very centralized library of family friend styled games) with a heavy dose of nostalgia may actually work well for them in a service like them.

Whereas Sony is more known for a wide variety of big budget, modern games ... people just prefer the regular Playstation I think over the PSNow. I think this concept would work better for Nintendo which has a more "cohesive" universe and doesn't really have to work about the third parties, that's Sony's problem with PSNow is how do you divvy up PSNow profits to third parties, Nintendo doesn't have that issue as they alone can support a streaming service by themselves if they have to. 

Maybe that is a "tier" of what NX is.

Free/Streaming NX - $89.99
Hardware cost (For small receiver + controller w/Amiibo NFC reader)

Dedicated Console NX - $299-$349.99

Dedicated Portable NX - $219.99

Now why would Sony/MS allow this on this systems? Maybe they won't ... and there's a good chance Nintendo may not want it either. Buuuuut, what happens say if Microsoft allows it? Suddenly the XBox One has Nintendo games and the Playstation doesn't, so Sony would kinda be forced to match.

Nintendo could actually use the two of them against each other to be able to have their network service available on both systems without giving either one a dime just for feature parity sake. AppleTV could support this service too.

Say $7-$10/month for NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, Wii U, DS, 3DS, GBA, GB and NX titles ala carte, Nintendo could control it so that newer NX games maybe come a little later for people who have just the streaming service and cycle older games around. But I think a lot of people who aren't buying Nintendo consoles right now would bite. 

Unless Nintendo has purchased a cloud based gaming company or somehow built up the costly infrastructure for one without anyone finding out, then I can't see Nintendo utilizing a streaming service anytime soon.

They did have those patents for a cloud-based service a couple of weeks ago ...

Doesn't Nvidia have a game streaming service too? Nintendo is bigger than Nvidia ($18 billion vs. $8 billion or so). 

You're right, Nintendo does have that supplementary device patent but it seems more like something to be used specifically for Nintendo hardware and we don't even know if Nintendo would actually use it (I hope they do someday).  Nvidia does have a streaming service but I have no idea how many subscribers they have or how many their service can handle.

My guess is they might start on a smaller scale, like in Japan and large US/European cities (LA/New York/Chicago/London/Paris/Berlin/etc.) over time first and then try to branch out into more rural areas. That seems kind of like a Nintendo-esque thing to do. 





d21lewis on 23 January 2016

Goddammit! Stumbled into another NX thread!

If they did go that route, I wouldn't participate just like with PS Now.



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TomaTito on 23 January 2016
mysteryman said:
I don't know about their then-current library, but this could work greatly for the VC

I agree. I could only see this working initially for VC content, specially NES due to the small file of the roms. If they expand a service like this to other hardware, for sure they'd also offer the possibility on 3DS and WiiU. Supported hardware would be similar to those from the membership service.

What would be interesting if Nintendo released drivers so their controllers could also be used on mobile or PC.




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Teeqoz on 23 January 2016

9.99 per month? That is waaaaaay too fuckin cheap mate.



Frogger on 23 January 2016

I think it's a possibility exclusively in tandem with the NX console. Don't think it'll be what you're suggesting, however.



Kennel83 on 23 January 2016

I wouldn't care about it, just make the vc games cheaper and I'd spend more than that. But if I pay for playing I want to own the games, if it was a subscription I wouldn't pay it.



jason1637 on 23 January 2016

So i pay like $200 for a device and then $8 a month to play on my device? No thank you.