Typical Nintendo fanboy talk. People don't just buy a PS4 instead of a Wii U because of graphics, you know.

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This essentially...I´ve seen this line of thought used so many times in these console war discussions and thus far it has not happened...

Anyway I guess I´m a total freaky outlier (maybe even the famous 1%) who really doesn´t connect with Nintendo´s first party games. The only way I can see this happen (Nintendo having 60% + marketshare) is if Nintendo is the last Console manufacturer. Thus this could happen 2025 the earliest as there WILL be a PS5 and next Xbox (maybe even something new).

I also think nintendo will have the last relevant console. But it's a handheld, or both HH and HC but HH by far the most relevant.

Sony is absolutely doomed after ps4. Next xbox will run windows games out of the box, and while I think it will be successfull, it's not a console.

Handheld is suffering from a relevancy problem as much as home console. Or have you not seen that mobile phones and tablets have eaten up handheld gaming and cut it down to 1/3 to 1/4 the size it was.

Well the PS5 won't be a normal console anyway and MS goes back to PC gaming. Nintendo might make the last relevant console but the future for Nintendo after NX will be very intresting, perhaps going mobile is there best option.

N64 wasn't even all that big compared to the PS1, but it was succesful nonetheless a shame Nintendo didn't want to learn what PS dud right and Nintendo did wrong. Since they made the exact same mistake in the 6th gen.

Why would the average consumer want to buy a Nintendo home console when, in the world you're describing, they have access to the majority of major 3rd party releases on stuff like their TV? Nintendo is already struggling to sell the WiiU on the back of just their own IP, and that's in a market where dedicated hardware of the kind we have right now is often still a necessity.

I think the handheld market somewhat highlights the above. Despite having larger control limitations, the mobile gaming market has had a massive impact on the success of dedicated handhelds, simply because it removes a lot of their necessity. A TV + a controller will function pretty much identically to a traditional consoles, so outside of being technically inferior (which you say won't matter), there will be even less incentive to invest in dedicated hardware. Especially when all you're gaining is 1 publisher's IP.

i dissagree

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and even then its not fair comparison because Next Gen games espacially Bloodborne look a lot better in motion because of the depth of field effects and motion blur

And people get angry when we insult Nintendo player who make threads like this one...

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They don't have to be microsoft or Sony, but they still need to conform to a minimum standard.

being "unique" is not a good excuse for having poor hardware. Being "different" is not a good excuse for skimping out on social features and online infrastructure.

the ouya tried to be "unique." They explicitly said they wanted to not compete with consoles and be their own special thing. They failed big time. Major complaint: hardware, OS, and games.

But Nintendo is not OUYA. Their IP's are completely different. But that doesn't mean that Nintendo isn't on a path to irrelevancy. They have old hardware (like the ouya), they have a bad online infrastructure (like the ouya), and they have low software output (thanks to no third party support). First party games are not enough to carry them into next gen. Kids today are more focused on minecraft and angry birds then they are on mario, and this is because of the wii u's failure. In this day and age, they need to focus less on the gimmicks and more on making a decent console with decent specs