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Soundwave on 01 June 2017
piopakk said:
Switch will probably never get downsized or getting a version 2.0. Look historically on Nintendo consoles. They never do a slim or 2.0 version. It's just not part of their business model. But of course times changes, but I don't see it happen.
Instead I think Nintendo will eventually kill of the 3DS platform, in favor of the switch. Or at least they need to think hard on how those two platforms can coexist in the future, instead of cannibalizing each other, as I believe they somewhat do.

Nintendo has never had one hardware line like the Switch ever before period. 

If we went by past relevance, NX should be a seperate home console and portable. 

The rules have already been broken massively, and I think other "rules" will be broken as we go along. 

Switch is new territory for Nintendo, you can't apply what held for older platforms (in some cases platforms that are now 25-30 years old) to it. 



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SegataSanshiro on 01 June 2017
JRPGfan said:

I think the resolution crap will end with 4k.... it should be a long time until we go higher.

Actually a few years ago in a interview with Leo laporte on his network. TV makers could already make 8k and soon  12k...this was about 5 years ago. Only reason it's on the market is 4k was brand new then. It's still not fully caught on yet the market just hasn't caught up yet but they are already ready and waiting for it to open up.



xl-klaudkil on 01 June 2017
Soundwave said:
xl-klaudkil said:

Soo how is Samsung  or netflix  going  to acquire  the big  sony  franchises? 

 

Nope sony and  Nintendo 's focus  will be hugely about  creator  more and more exclusive games.

 

Ofcourse  when streaming  and or digital  only  happens  it's  time to ditch new gen gaming  :)

What big Sony franchises? They have like one (Uncharted). 

The rest are third party IP they all could run off PC servers. 

If streaming is the future, Nintendo will probably try for a few years to run their own service and get people to pay seperately basically to be able to play their staple of IP. If that doesn't take then they'll probably just cut a deal with Apple or Netflix or whoever but continue to sell their own line of accessories and controllers. 

Your delusional  fantasy  is hilarious. 

Hopefully  your just joking  right. 



 

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Barkley on 01 June 2017
Soundwave said:

The next generation is probably the last one in a lot of ways. Been a fun ride though I guess, especially for those of us to got to see the 80s and 90s. 

By 2027 or so I think you'll have more widespread adoption of 1 gigabit+ ultra high speed internet, which will bring about the creation of a Netflix style gaming service that requires no hardware but a $30 Bluetooth controller. And it will probably be an Apple or Samsung or even Netflix themselves that controls it, not a Nintendo or even Sony.

Why do you think that? Considering PlayStation is already setting up the foundations for this service with PSNOW, which they'll slowly expand and improve upon over the next decade until it's their primary business.



Qwark on 01 June 2017

The Switch I or Swich slim won't be (much) more powerful but improve on portability and battery life. What's the point of a stronger Switch it won't be anything near the PS5 by the time it gets out even if they put a tegra X4 in it. Which I estimate will be a 8-10TFLOP console with a decent CPU and 12GB RAM. Nintendo should put the focus on more portability with the Switch slim not power.



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Qwark on 01 June 2017
Soundwave said:
xl-klaudkil said:

Soo how is Samsung  or netflix  going  to acquire  the big  sony  franchises? 

 

Nope sony and  Nintendo 's focus  will be hugely about  creator  more and more exclusive games.

 

Ofcourse  when streaming  and or digital  only  happens  it's  time to ditch new gen gaming  :)

What big Sony franchises? They have like one (Uncharted). 

The rest are third party IP they all could run off PC servers. 

If streaming is the future, Nintendo will probably try for a few years to run their own service and get people to pay seperately basically to be able to play their staple of IP. If that doesn't take then they'll probably just cut a deal with Apple or Netflix or whoever but continue to sell their own line of accessories and controllers. 

Uncharted, God of War, Gran Turismo, The last of Us and Horizon are turning out to get pretty big. Just because a game doesn't sell 10 million units does not mean it's irrelevant, especially when you got more than a dozen of games which are breaking the 2 million mark (if you include digital sales).



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Pyro as Bill on 01 June 2017

Streaming games isn't going to become a thing regardless of internet speed. Using a phone/blutooth controllers as a console isn't the future either.



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Areym on 01 June 2017

I'm not sure I buy the "the best of both worlds" part. Sure, I get the strongest handheld on the market but I'm not getting anywhere near the strongest console or even the one with the biggest future library (due to its current lack of third party support and what could be lack of heavy hitters like AC, CoD, BF, Far Cry, etc)

I'm sure you were not implying it was the strongest console or anything of the sort but, in my eyes, I'd getting a strong handheld and a weak console. Personally, I don't care for handheld gaming anymore so it's not up my alley. However, it is really convenient to have a console that does both fairly well for the games it has. That will certainly attract a lot of people.



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freebs2 on 01 June 2017
VGPolyglot said:
JRPGfan said:

It cant be never ending... at some point screens will be better than our human eye's can perceive.... then it should stop.

But there could be a placebo like effect, where there's no perceptible difference, but the people are made to believe that there is, which makes it actually seem like there is.

The placebo effect. Yes, that's partially true and that's what marketing is there for, but it can work only to a certain degree. I believe the resolution increase model is already showing its limits, each step requires exponentially more power while real world returns are becoming less and less noticeable.

More likely the future of game techlonlogies will be split between more portable and felxible solutions (Switch, tablets, steam) and highly immersive VR devices.



VGPolyglot on 01 June 2017
freebs2 said:
VGPolyglot said:

But there could be a placebo like effect, where there's no perceptible difference, but the people are made to believe that there is, which makes it actually seem like there is.

The placebo effect. Yes, that's partially true and that's what marketing is there for, but it can work only to a certain degree. I believe the resolution increase model is already showing its limits, each step requires exponentially more power while real world returns are becoming less and less noticeable.

More likely the future of game techlonlogies will be split between more portable and felxible solutions (Switch, tablets, steam) and highly immersive VR devices.

Hmm, I just feel like they'll try to suck out the differences for a long as possible.