d00d3n
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Pachter thinks NX will release in 2017, won't be very good.
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Neff
Member
Nintendo clearly wants back into the hardcore market. Their problem is that they need to find a way of marrying it with their family-friendly brand, and it is a problem because the two have been mutually exclusive for some time. What's more, they don't really have any other choice, because there just aren't enough people buying the kind of products they make to bring in significant profit, and their most recent big audience isn't coming back now that they have free games. Nintendo needs to cultivate a market by effectively converting the one that already exists. Coming in during the middle of a generation (assuming their hardware is of a comparable standard to the competition) may also present an obstacle as much as an opportunity. Fortunately for them, what once would have been an unwise and unnecessary venture is a lot more workable due to Sony and MS dialing down their dogged, loss leading, cutting edge gen 7 strategy, which opens the door for favourable comparisons and a level playing field for potential 3rd party relations.
Nobody sane expects '90s Play It Loud Nintendo back (or '90s Sony for that matter, either), but there is room for Nintendo. They just need to have something really spectacular up their sleeve.
Crash Station
Member
Hope you only like Mario, Pokemon and Aninal Crossing because that's all you'll get if they went third party.
I wouldn't call any of those console innovations a gimmick. Pretty much all of them have become console mainstays since thir release. Nintendo was just on the bleeding edge of gaming hardware interfaces as usual.
The NDS was the first touchscreen video game system; now every mobile gaming device has a touchscreen.
The Wii introduced functional motion controls; they have since become standard features on most controllers and are about to have a huge boost thanks to VR.
With the Wii U gamepad Nintendo made the mistake of half-assedly following a trend, rather than setting one and the result was not good.
Since Nintendo lost their ability to compete with other consoles in terms of third-party software they have relied on gameplay innovations to sell consoles. The Wii U failed to innovate and the results are exactly what one would expect.
spookyfish
Gold Member
You really don't think Nintendo will follow its usual gameplan and delay? Because I'm not expecting this in March.
Really? Weren't all signs pointing to hybrid?
MrSaturn99
Member
Oh wow, LOL
Hopefully he's wrong on the "won't be very good" bit
Hopefully he's wrong on the "won't be very good" bit
Damn, he should have said that they weren't going to show it at E3.
Yeah, we got tons of rumor saying it's stronger than the PS4 but then those rumors also said 2016 for NX, I dunno what to believe anymore.
Yeah, we got tons of rumor saying it's stronger than the PS4 but then those rumors also said 2016 for NX, I dunno what to believe anymore.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Micheal Huber (EZA) predicted 2017.
A lot of people predicted 2017.
It's really not a big deal.
A lot of people predicted 2017.
It's really not a big deal.
Rabid Dwarf 76
Member
I love Patcher and I love salt. This bump is great fun.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
This.
For a 2017 console, it better release stronger than the 2013 one.
I have no doubt NX will beat PS4 in power.
Compsiox
Banned
He said March
SinCityAssassin
Member
Well it got the release part right.
fudgey_lumpkins
Member
They could do it with a black label like Nintendo does for mature 3DS games in Japan. If you make it known to the public that the black label stuff is not for children, you have an immediate and easily recognizable visual distinction between products targeted for specific demographics. You'll have Nintendo for everyone and Nintendo black label for adults.
NoFaceNico
Member
The Year Of Nightmares continues full steam ahead...
What about the PS4k tho?
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Amazing!
theangrypirate
Member
This.
It hasn't even been seen or shown to the point we don't even know WHAT it is and it's already a backwards thinking technology that isn't better than what we already have.
I think this is a new record guys.
Also doesn't bode well if Nintendo's image is so tarnished an unannounced console can pull in this type of thinking.
I think this is a new record guys.
Also doesn't bode well if Nintendo's image is so tarnished an unannounced console can pull in this type of thinking.
SprachBrooks
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Astral/H3X
Member
That... Would actually be really cool in a way. White label for Mario, Animal Crossing, and Zelda, and then separate black label for Metroud, F Zero, Persona tie ins and shit.
Might help Nintendo avoid having to censor shit to avoid criticism from parents who expect every game to be wholly child friendly.
friskykillface
Banned
lots of people said 2017
but they didn't say March
Patch gon give it ta ya
but they didn't say March
Patch gon give it ta ya
Prevolition
Member
I don't understand the correlation between getting the release time correct and the prediction that the NX will just be a hybrid console that will fail. Can someone enlighten me how Pachter would know this too and why people are jumping on the assumption?
This was probably easier to guess than 2017. It's Nintendo - the hardware will be mediocre.
MaybeBurger
Banned
well, pachter was right. 2017. you're the first responder to this thread.
That's not what I remember. I also don't know why he would say March. Was this something that he said later? If so, it was a reaction to him being wrong about his original prediction. If it's launching this FY, November and March were the only two options to anyone paying attention. He was clearly expecting a similar schedule to Wii and Wii U though.
LeeRoyBrown
Banned
Pachter doesn't inspire any real conversation, provide any tangible insight or have any real inside information.
He's worthless. These threads are always just a mix of defensive posts about how he's always wrong and people pointing out the defensive posts.
I don't see what's unreasonable about his opinion. He can't predict the future im sure any better than anyone else can and I'm not sure he's pretending to either. Not sure what you are so worked up about.
