Am I missing something where is this NX for $150 thing coming from?
Some guy doubling down on a rumour about a Diddy Kong Racing sequel, as though anyone still cares about that game, and mentioned a $150 pricepoint for NX.
This incited fever dreams in some people that a low price point on gaming hardware was all it took to bring back the casual market.
So basically, it's coming from nothing.
The Nintendo brand is still very powerful in the family market
150 drops barriers man. All Im saying
$150 drops a barrier. Singular.
Well Iwata already said that NX will "absorb Wii U architecture". There you go.
There's only one thing I don't understand in this thread; apparently Nintendo is talking with third parties (talking doesn't mean they'll get something out of it offcourse) but the defeatist mentallity of several posters kind of surprises me. Yeah, Nintendo will have a hard time convincing third parties to make software for their next system, but man they'll need to try something after Wii U. Man, if I could be a fly on the wall during E3 2015...
Again, if I were Nintendo I'd bend over backwards to get Capcom, Atlus, Bandai-Namco, Level-5 and to a lesser extent Square-Enix on board.
It's a mix of bad ideas that cause this:
1) Thinking 3rd parties hold a legitimate grudge against Nintendo and eagerly await their failure in the hardware space, because if there's anything they want more, it's another potential competitor in the 3rd-party space for consumers' money! Makes total sense!!
2) Thinking that 3rd-parties are unnecessary for growth of the business (and as much as I love Nintendo, even I'm not that naive)
3) Thinking that Sony and Microsoft have some irreversible hold on 3rd-parties, like they each have boxes of blackmail photos of publishers and developers having kinky sex with hookers or giving some dude a handie at a truck stop. "Release a game on a Nintendo console and I send these to the press!"
When the reality is that there's no conspiracy, 3rd-parties are an essential part of the console business and Sony/MS don't hold a forcible monopoly on 3rd-party business.
I wonder if that means its using the same architecture, or if parts of it are in the system for bc?
God I hope they drop it. It's far past it's time to be dropped. And I mean fuck, they got their money's worth out of it.
They actually can't use it again. No new custom chipset designs are being considered for consumer use. It's essentially a dead end for consumer electronics now, so there is ZERO chance of a return to PowerPC.
Or on Nintendo consoles in general, that audience went elsewhere.
I wasn't aware that each 3rd-party game came with its own Sony and Microsoft issued Hypnotoad that forcibly prevented people from making their own purchase decisions and could never consider buying a Nintendo product again.
It's not just that; as long as Nintendo are unwilling to develop flagship IPs aimed at a more mature audience, third party games will continue to underperform on their platforms.
Define "flagship IP" for me.
Obviously not every single game is gonna be on both. For example, the next mainline Pokémon game will likely be reserved for the handheld, while the console may get the bigger titles like Zelda or Xenoblade that would be too much for the handheld to handle.
Nah, it's a safe bet that they'll get both. Pokemon is entirely playable as a home version, and for those who would want portability, boom, the game works in the handheld as well, or you could extend the "catch em all" mechanic to a smartphone companion app for the game.
As for Zelda or Xenoblade, slowly strip the effects away until you have a comparative game. (see: Hyrule Warriors on 3DS, but cheaper to do)