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My thoughts on Nintendo's situation, and my expectations of the NX

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Viewing this now out of wistfulness?
TribstyAnn
Good article. I would have given 5 stars, except you said the cost to develop on 3ds was inferior to Wii U wich is the opposite of what I'm sure you meant. ;)
I do kinda hope The NX goes hybrid. Having a portable console that can hook up to a TV, would be super cool, I think.
Blue Knight
Blue Knight
Nope, that's exactly what I meant. Developing for the 3DS is much cheaper than developing for the Wii U.

To put it into perspective, developing for the 3DS is developing for a handheld console with specs equivalent to 6th gen hardware with lower than standard definition home consoles, the Wii U is an HD console steonger than 7th gen hardware. The 3DS's architecture is also much more friendly.

It's like the difference between developing for a PSP and a PS4, kinda.
Hayleia
Great article. Not just theories based on nothing, there's a real plan here.
Not sure If I'd like it the way you described it though. I never liked home consoles (PC all the way...) but on the other hand, I feel like Nintendo was the only one to keep making them right (though they don't always manage to sell them as you said), the other two just milking money out of it. So while I'd be happy to have Nintendo focusing on making an awesome successor to the 3DS I love, I wouldn't want them to leave the home market to these sharks either...
Blue Knight
Blue Knight
Indeed, Nintendo has generally either refined their past innovations (the SNES and GameCube to the NES and N64) or have looked for different approaches than simply linear hardware upgrades, like the Wii giving newer ways to play (hey, FPSes and RTSes with motion controls affording more intuitiveness than a joystick) the same can't be said for Microsoft and Sony, who have entered some sort of race to try to reach PC hardware-wise, resulting in more expensive consoles, more expensive development for games and thus less originality.

It's especially jarring to see, especially when their hardware hasn't even been pushed to the max, yet already releasing upgraded models explicitly for better resolution. Yet unfortunately this seems to be what people want these days, with the public speaking with their wallets :/
TheYESDragon
Good article, I agree with most of it :p Although whilst a single handheld would be cool, I'm not sure if I'd want a full home console instead. A hybrid would be a much better compromise for me... but yes, I do want one single library!
Blue Knight
Blue Knight
Well, that can be easily fixed, too.

In case players want a home console-like experience (TV play, local multiplayer with a single console and multiple controllers...) A cheap add on that plugs the console to TV is a fine solution, too.

Resolution wouldn't even be an issue here. Things like even the cheapest of phones and tablets have screen resolutions of 720p or even 1080p, so worst case scenario, it'd be 720p upscaled to 1080p like a good many Wii U games (many of them aren't native 1080p, like Bayonetta)
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