Many Japanese companies prefer handhelds, period. PSP showed it, 3DS shows it. It's a safer bet in Japan to release your game on the leading handheld. That's why this 2-in-1 idea is a great way to unite western and Japanese strengths for Nintendo.
another nintendo console...another fail.....
If you're not talking about being a carbon copy of Sony/Microsoft but you think that they need to compete directly with them, what do you think the console should be like?
another nintendo console...another fail.....
Nintendo's forecast is to sell like 10 million systems. That is nothing especially after owning the handheld market completely again.
Nintendo must compete with Sony and Microsoft. There is healthy niche for Nintendo or do I think that is what Nintendo wants and for what the NX platforms is designed for.
We aren't talking of becoming a carbon copy of the two other companies but that avoiding of Sony and Microsoft will hurt Nintendo even more.
Getting a basic of western third party support should be like the first thing on Nintendo's list. The release lists for the 3ds and WiiU are wastelands.
Getting a basic of western third party support should be like the first thing on Nintendo's list. The release lists for the 3ds and WiiU are wastelands.
Getting a basic of western third party support should be like the first thing on Nintendo's list. The release lists for the 3ds and WiiU are wastelands.
Which would work if Nintendo had games attractive to a majority of the Western market, but they won't.
Getting a basic of western third party support should be like the first thing on Nintendo's list. The release lists for the 3ds and WiiU are wastelands.
Basic western 3rd party support handheld is already there for 3DS. Big publishers aren't coming back and they're mostly invested in AAA and mobile, no mid-tier development. Western 3rd party support for handhelds mostly come from smaller studios and indies. And if their next handheld is powerful enough to support the latest engines, you can also expect more indies.
Home console on the other hand, yes, Nintendo would do well to reach out and get western 3rd party support there. Sports games are a necessary, the latest CoD is a necessary.
Getting basic western third party support will have little to no impact on sales of the NX. It's almost useless. And as AniHawk says just by its nature the NX will have a much better release list than the Wii U (and the 3ds).
Getting basic western third party support will have little to no impact on sales of the NX. It's almost useless. And as AniHawk says just by its nature the NX will have a much better release list than the Wii U (and the 3ds).
I'm salivating at the thought of how good Nintendo made games can look on a machine in equal footing than a PS4 after seeing what they could do on a WiiU.
Mario Kart 8, for one, doesnt stop to amaze me.
i feel like with skylanders being a partnership, that nintendo will probably get call of duty next year, especially considering it will be around launch. i suspect the same from ubisoft with assassin's creed. as long as development is super simple, i think some profit can be eked out of those projects.
So, the talk is semi-custom industry-leading chips. I assume a SoC and maybe the same one used by AMD on Xbone/PS4??
One article mentions "the ASP for the chip will be significantly lower than what Sony and Microsoft pay, if one goes by historical profiles." Is that really the case?
Could Nintendo get what's in the PS4 for less price at this stage?
So, the talk is semi-custom industry-leading chips. I assume a SoC and maybe the same one used by AMD on Xbone/PS4??
One article mentions "the ASP for the chip will be significantly lower than what Sony and Microsoft pay, if one goes by historical profiles." Is that really the case?
Could Nintendo get what's in the PS4 for less price at this stage?
And that's with a large number of Nintendo's development being redundant. If they don't have to make two versions of Mario, two versions of Mario Kart, etc., then that means their developers can be working on other games to help round out the library for both systems.
Not entirely sure of region breakdown, but:
Super Mario has shipped around 31 million units this generation.
Pokemon has shipped around 24 million.
Mario Kart has shipped around 17 million.
Super Smash Bros has shipped around 11 million.
Animal Crossing will be well over 10 million with Happy Home Designer and Amiibo Festival, maybe as high as 15.
All of the above on Nintendo's worst selling platforms ever by a wide margin.
Which article is this??
As all those PS4 turbine posts perfectly illustrate.Yes please. Only the N64 had it internal IIRC, and even that was removable.
Sony proves that a top system like the PS4 can be reasonably sized and still have the PSU inside.
Which article is this??
AMD's Q3 earnings conference call was a couple days ago but for those that missed it:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3579626-what-amds-q3-earnings-report-means
the shadowy hype train is unbearable. for me. project cafè 2/3 months of rumors were hard, but this...this could last one year, 12 months, 48 weeks.
I can't stand it!
the shadowy hype train is unbearable. for me. project cafè 2/3 months of rumors were hard, but this...this could last one year, 12 months, 48 weeks.
I can't stand it!
i feel we actually know quite a lot about what this platform will be though, unlike the revolution/wii. i think we know what the direction will be too, unlike the cafe/wii u.
AmyS brought it up from AMDs recent conference call a couple of days ago.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=182043755&postcount=3188
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=182129795&postcount=3664
Here you go
Super Mario also did it across how many games? Same with Pokemon. When you release 10 games featuring the most iconic character in gaming--including a few that were packed with their systems--it's not surprising they sold well. People like Nintendo properties, but at this point it's only the die-hard fans that will buy them. Someone in the US is way more likely to buy a PS4 as an all in one home media device than whatever Nintendo has to offer whether or not they want to play Smash Bros or Animal Crossing.
What I was referring to was that Nintendo will probably force their way into Nintendo First and Second Party releases only, which will work for some people, but the variance you get from good third party support is what really sells the Xbox One and PS4--as well as the good amount of media support from BD and streaming services. No matter how many Marios or Pokemon games Nintendo puts on NX, it won't sell if the device doesn't have more than only their games.
Not sure if any of their handhelds have taken over a year...If, as rumored, the NX is announced at E3 this year and released either fall 2016 or early 2017, would it be the first new Nintendo system to be released within a year of being revealed? Not counting N3DS and other revisions?
Nintendo won't give up initial profits because they have been trying so, so hard to get profitable again. If they created a loss leader and sacrifices profits then shareholders would go nuts. If Nintendo can generate enough revenue elsewhere though so overall they can remain profitable I think they could get away with it, but I don't know if they have enough other revenue streams to do that.Or initial hardware profits. If they have enough reason to suspect a decent fall in component costs, they could actually bite the bullet to earn some good will with consumers instead of due to sheer necessity like they did with the Wii U.
I still find it hard to believe (I'm happy to be proven wrong) that a BluRay disk is as expensive as physical flash storage.CDs and DVDs? Yeah. Blu-Rays have a very high rate of production failure, so the cost on them is higher.
AmyS brought it up from AMDs recent conference call a couple of days ago.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=182043755&postcount=3188
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=182129795&postcount=3664
If, as rumored, the NX is announced at E3 this year and released either fall 2016 or early 2017, would it be the first new Nintendo system to be released within a year of being revealed? Not counting N3DS and other revisions?
I am really glad they are going through with the console handheld hybrid since we might finally get another monster hunter on a console.
3ds was announced (leaked) in march 2010 and released in march 2011.
ds was announced in january 2004 and released in november 2004.
Nintendo won't give up initial profits because they have been trying so, so hard to get profitable again. If they created a loss leader and sacrifices profits then shareholders would go nuts. If Nintendo can generate enough revenue elsewhere though so overall they can remain profitable I think they could get away with it, but I don't know if they have enough other revenue streams to do that.
I still find it hard to believe (I'm happy to be proven wrong) that a BluRay disk is as expensive as physical flash storage.
When Blu Ray was introduced 10 years ago the production cost of a bluray was a little bit more than $1 @25k. Never would flash storage with the additional setup costs and general low print rate even come close to the bluray. Third parties would never accept the higher price and the longer delivering times.
The problem I have with the idea of the Smash Bros route being the plan is that we've already seen that it mostly means one just cannibalises the other. In fact we've seen the same with most PS ecosystem games where the sales have just been split, rather than increasing.
It would make owning both SKUs completely redundant. At least if the games are completely universal the consumer has the benefit of not having to buy new software if they decide to buy the other hardware.
except they already have, a lot, for multiple gaming devices since then.
On mobile devices where you want to avoid movable parts for all kinds of reasons.
But even Sony's UMDs for the PSP were significantly cheaper and more third party friendly than Nintendo's game cards for the NDS.
The problem I have with the idea of the Smash Bros route being the plan is that we've already seen that it mostly means one just cannibalises the other. In fact we've seen the same with most PS ecosystem games where the sales have just been split, rather than increasing.
It would make owning both SKUs completely redundant. At least if the games are completely universal the consumer has the benefit of not having to buy new software if they decide to buy the other hardware.
In fact it would even kill off the sales of the hardcore users who would buy more than one sku.
There is no real argument why one shared library would lead in better software sales in a way that all the multi Playstation cant do.
In fact it would even kill off the sales of the hardcore users who would buy more than one sku.
There is no real argument why one shared library would lead in better software sales in a way that all the multi Playstation cant do.
and in the end it was the ds that sold 150m units and 900m units of software.
Yes and?
It doesn't change that the UMD was from a production cost point of view the better storage. And at the end only the NDS and the Gameboy with all the revisions in more than 10 years sold more than the PSP.
