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Topic: Supposition: If hybrid rumors are true & NX tanks

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BlueSkies

If the new alleged leaks are true about the system being built around a mandated portable, having weaker hardware than consoles that will be 4 years old when it launches, and using recycled Wii remote tech in the face of Vive's 1:1 3D tracking-- if all of this is true and the system is literally Super WiiU, then it will no doubt tank worse than WiiU. It will be too expensive for portable gamers and it will be a pile of gimmicks to console gamers (who are considering an upgrade to Neo or Scorpio instead of a downgrade). It would serve neither consumer well. You simply can't produce a product for both of those consumers. And we already know that Nintendo is planning to release a new true-portable in 2018 so why should their portable gamers even gamble on WiiU2?.

Assume it's spring 2018, you're about to release your new GameBoy and meanwhile the NX has stalled out with only 6 million users. The NX is dead in the water. It's on track to sell 8 million units by March 2019. Management has given the go to produce a new console for launch in November 2019, and NX is left with nothing but portable cross-platform games between it and GameBoy. What is your plan?

You can follow my outline if you want to do a full breakdown:
-Hardware- 6-9Tflop 14nm GPU, 16GB RAM (2-4GB being HBM), SPU in addition to a CPU, heat pipes, and solid state games
-Casing- A vertical wind tunnel tower design that takes in cool air at the bottom and expels hot air from the top. A second fan would still be used for direct cooling of the heat sink.
-Controller- Basically, two controllers and a sensor that are 1:1 like Vive but featuring analog sticks because you're not using a VR headset.
-Games- Delay the Metroid fps that may or may not be just entering development and launch with it, port up Breath of the Wild and whatever else had potential but died on NX (Mario Bike, Splatoon 2, F-zero), and secure a handful of Western PC titles as exclusives (because that's the only place you'll find support for such powerful hardware).
Punch-Out Vs- If there is a game that can demo a 3D controller to the mass market, it's Punch-Out. You simply take the characters of Punch-Out and create a fighting game from it with 1:1 boxing controls and utilize the simple dodge mechanics of the franchise with the stick or triggers.

I believe that if Nintendo simply delivered a 3D motion controller with a normal console (as opposed to a $1200 VR rig), they will enjoy the mass market and core gamer support they saw with Wii. The technology is right in front of us all with Vive. Nintendo doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. The console doesn't have to be everything to everyone. It doesn't need to do 3 different things. It just needs to do one thing well.

There is not a bias against Nintendo in the industry. The industry wants an awesome Nintendo console again (with Western 2nd party support too). It's NOJ that has become reactive against the rest of the industry. They have recoiled from the progress of graphics technology and the innovation of online gaming/chat. NOJ is designing hardware that is a barrier to their software rather than a bridge to 3rd party support.

Edited on by BlueSkies

BlueSkies

dtjive

To be honest, I'm sure Nintendo have had discussions of contingency plans if the NX flops. I suspect one of these will be just to release a pure home console system that has improved graphics. They'll then work on making up-res ports of games that were successful on the NX/are suited to home console playing. They'll probably then start developing games for both systems, but some might be NX-portable exclusive and others might be NX-home console exclusive (but aim for the majority to be available on both). They'll probably then try to attract increased third party support for the home console version too.

dtjive

gcunit

BlueSkies wrote:

If the new alleged leaks are true about the system being built around a mandated portable, having weaker hardware than consoles that will be 4 years old when it launches, and using recycled Wii remote tech in the face of Vive's 1:1 3D tracking-- if all of this is true and the system is literally Super WiiU, then it will no doubt tank worse than WiiU. It will be too expensive for portable gamers and it will be a pile of gimmicks to console gamers (who are considering an upgrade to Neo or Scorpio instead of a downgrade). It would serve neither consumer well. You simply can't produce a product for both of those consumers.

No doubt...

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Wonder what username @BlueSkies is posting under nowadays.

Hang on - this thread was 18 months dead. And locked.

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Edited on by gcunit

You guys had me at blood and semen.

What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

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