A headset attachment isbasically Sony's way of saying, "we are going VR but not leaving traditional gaming behind" and I see NX as Nintendo's way of saying the same thing. You do not have to see it, they have to go in a different direction VR or not if they make a new home console to give people a reason to own both NX and their next home console.

If Nintendo markets it correctly, they can say they are, "fully committed" to VR and maybe win some core gamers. Also, since when does Nintendo care if another company is, "gung ho" on something. If they feel they can make it work and have properly invested in it, they will do it.

I did not expect anyone to believe me or buy into it. I said Wii U would not require a television to be play games and I was slaughtered over that as well. It is my idea for the vision going forward. Nobody else said it in this thread so if I am correct, I can take a big W with me, again.

why not on a PS2? why not on an SNES? why not on an Atari 2600? Why not on a Texas Instruments calculator?

because being underpowered is only 1 of the reasons, the main reason is different architectures would require the developers to dedicate a specific team to code the game in specific for this exotic architecture that no one uses.

it's all about cost/benefit.

also, it's not 'downgraded' to ps4/xb1, the games are made specifically for those platforms, and then, given what we know, taking advantage of the better performing machines, those should get stuff like higher res textures, better AA, better shadowing, better frame rates possibly.

just thing of these machines as you would of a gaming pc. just because you can have different components inside, because the main architecture is the same, the games don't need a special port for each of the configurations each person may have. it's a very simplistic way of putting it, but should get the basic idea behind "why not put it on the NX?"

Well you seem to already think the NX is a failure. If it sells well, then why not put their games on the NX? Cant be that hard or expensive.

i didn't not say that at all. it might be quite successful on it's own right. judging from the rumors only, in terms of power, yes it's going to be a massive fail. would you consider the wii a failure? i'm sure Nintendo didn't think that. Power wise... yeah it was absolutely terrible for it's time

There was a really big difference between the power of the Wii and the PS3 and 360 though. They had to make a new version of the game for the Wii.

I could see some multi-plats like maybe Batman (though a late port) and Dragon Quest XI and maybe even Final Fantasy VII Remake. 

I think Japanese devs will be more willing to do the work of downscaling for a NX version because the upside is much larger for Japanese devs since NX is likely going to be the market leader in Japan. So there's obvious incentive to want your biggest games available to the biggest game audience. 

Western devs though ... yeah. Nintendo's probably in tough there. I could see maybe Activision trying with COD for a year to see how it goes. 

i agree... and now i'm saying there will be an even bigger power difference between the current consoles and the NX (again, if the rumors stand to be true). that's exactly why I'm predicting nearly 0 3rd party support on AAA titles.

power is not everything though, I love my Vita and I never expected it to be getting console AAA games. things are what they are, no need to make them more than that

Late ports dont work well on nintendo systems.

And nitnendo users generally dont support them, because... why should they? its a late port, and runs at less graphics settings than if they got it on another system.

Also Batman is a pretty demanding game, with half the power that could become a issue.

Same is true for FFVIIR, it looks pretty graphically intense.