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Thunderbird77 on 17 February 2016
snyps said:
KungKras said:
It would be very difficult to release a platform that's not more powerful than the PS4 today. You can build a custom PC that runs circles around it pretty cheaply.

Also I disagree about entering mid-gen. If Nintendo could position themselves as to always be in between two generation they could do pretty well. One half, they'll be the most powerful platform around while the second half, the new platforms have to compete with a console where all the Nintendo heavy-hitters are already out. It would be a nice market position for them.

As for the architecture, I hope that Nintendo has realized that they need to switch to x86. The entire industry is desperate for portability across hardware and if Nintendo adopts that architecture, third parties might actually be forced to port to their platform despite their irrational hatred of Nintendo. Dev costs are only going to go up and any revenue stream availible is an important revenue strem.

You make for a very good argument for mid-gen but what makes you think consumers would buy a Powerful NX over a Powerful PS4?

Same as always: GAMES.



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Thunderbird77 on 17 February 2016
snyps said:
wombat123 said:

I agree.  The tolerance level that 3rd parties have towards porting games over to Nintendo platforms is leagues less than what they'd put up with for the twins.  From what I've read, the Wii U in particular was so much of a hassle  to port to that most 3rd parties just said 'screw it' before the Wii U's first year even completed.  Hopefully, Nintendo was embarrassed enough to get the message that they need 3rd party help and making things harder to work with them isn't a good thing.

The difficulty in porting came from the Wii U's integrated features like touchscreen and lack of power, not the architecture. 

Actually, neither is a problem (integrated features aren't even a factor).