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Forums - Gaming - Michael Pachter Has A Good Feeling About The Nintendo NX

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/07/outspoken_analyst_has_a_good_feeling_about_the_nintendo_nx

 

"They really lost third-party support. EA supported the launch and then stopped making games for it after a year. If you don't have third-party support the only people that end up buying a Nintendo console are fanboys, who only want to play Nintendo games. Now, flip that over. If you are not a Nintendo fanboy but you love Nintendo games, the cost of playing them is you've got to buy a second console. Because, you're already playing GTA or FIFA on your Xbox One or PS4. So, just to play Nintendo games, it's hard to justify a console. With one exception, Zelda. I totally get why people would buy an NX to play Zelda. It's a frickin' great game.

I don't know if Nintendo is telling me the truth, they're not liars. But I don't know if Nintendo is exaggerating for a fact, but they told me that the map in Breath of the Wild is 12 times the size of the map in Twilight Princess. Like I said, I don't really know what that means but it sounds like there's 12 times as much to do.

The point is, it sounds like a much, much bigger game. And, if the game is as big as they say, that's enough. You will buy a console just to play that game. Obviously they are going to have other games coming up behind it. I think that they recognised a year or two ago that the Wii U was kind of over. I think they probably diverted all of their development efforts to support the NX. Zelda is going to be essentially a launch title, it will be the biggest game out."

For Pachter, having a game of Zelda's standing as a launch title will help the NX out of the gate:

"So, I think the NX kind of quickly sells the same install base as the Wii U and, assuming the NX is not as complicated as the Wii U. Assuming that they've sold the GamePad problems, whether it's just a conventional controller or they've fixed the battery life, made it more of a tablet, and there's more to do with the NX. If they can get third-party support, I think they're going to be competitive again."

He also feels that Nintendo is launching NX at the right time:

"I frankly think that they're benefitted by the Xbox One S not being an upgrade over the Xbox [One], it's just thinner and lighter. I think they're benefitted by the PS4 Neo and the Xbox Scorpio essentially being mid-cycle, modest upgrades intended, I think, to support VR, and all fully backward compatible. Maybe the NX is coming at the right time."

To sum up, Pachter points out that there are still a lot of "ifs" to sort out, but if Nintendo can play its cards right then the NX could become a "solid, competitive console":

"It looks a lot to me like the NX is going to be essentially a PS4 in a Nintendo case. If it's that powerful, if it's easy enough architecturally for all the publishers to support, so FIFA, Call of Duty and Battlefield are on the NX, then absolutely I think this thing is going to sell really well. Let's hope Nintendo get their mojo back, let's hope they get third-party publisher support. If they do, I frankly think it is enough to carry the NX launch. If they get third-party support, it will sell 20 – 50 million units and be a solid, competitive console."

 

We all can agree now that The NX is doomed alright. 



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...Pacther please stop... Please stop... You're killing all my hope



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Well. Nintendo's fucked.



I think he has realized his power now...



No, no, no, no, no! No, just, no! He's trying to bury the NX before it even gets unveiled.



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Ka-pi96 said:
Versus_Evil said:

What's worse than a NX doom thread? Positive news about NX from Patcher.

Aren't they practically the same thing?

I was about to say the same thing lol



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

Pachter killing the NX before it even releases



oh no.. this isn't good for the NX.



Nintendo's reaction after reading this



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Stop, Pachter, just stop. You're jinxing everything!