The consoles are severely under-powered. I wouldnt have minded to stick to one HW had they been more powerful to begin with. The xbox especially. But to stick to this under performing console for another 3-4 years? No thanks.
yeah for sure, but having some neo info out there right now gives them a lot of time to react where they can. Not everything is set in stone.
So wasn't the PS2 compared to Xbox and Gamecube yet it had amazing games regardless. PS4 was under-powered on launch, yet we are getting games like drivclube, ratchet and clank, bloodborne, uncharted 4, horizon.
Power isn't everything Nintendo knew about that. This will create more problems down the road especially if this becomes a trend. If it's just for a stop gap because they made the decision with the weak hardware in the beginning and going forward are still doing regular console cycles that's a different story.
But fingers point to iterative being the way they want to do things now.
I mean they won't have those periods in between cycles where they have to get used to an entirely new system and architecture.
IF THEY stick with AMD, and something similar to x86 they wont have to anyway. It wont be that big of a change like it was going from POWER PC architecture to x86. They would be just going to something more powerful but with similar architecture that gives them way more power, and flexibility.
Saying going iterative makes everything easier transition wise for developers is a cop out. If they stay the course and go with better hardware that's still supports or has x86 based architecture there wont be a lot developers have to do. They wont have to start from scratch.