So I'm pretty new to Nintendo and will be starting off my experience by buying the 'New Nintendo 3DS + Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate + Cover Plate' for £175.
However, this new 'Nintendo NX' console is supposedly a hybrid which "will feature a home unit, but with a "mobile unit" that can either be used with the console or taken away and used separately" and has a rumored price of just roughly £100.
So judging by what it can supposedly do, it's supposedly dirt cheap price and an apparent release date next year, do you think that the new 'Nintendo NX' console could/will replace the Wii U and, more specifically, the 3DS? Would it be worth me picking up a 'New Nintendo 3DS' with it's release date supposedly just around the corner?
@HighKing: Thanks for actually posting where you saw that. I appreciate it. I would be absolutely staggered if that wound up being the case.
My honest opinion is that a New 3DS seems like it would give you plenty of fun now - with a great library of games to choose from. It will be at least a year until the NX is released and will take even longer to build up a substantial selection of games worth buying... I've always been disappointed when I've bought a console on release day.
Get the fun out a system now and introduce yourself to all the franchises that Ninty has to offer. The New 3DS is still a relatively new piece of kit after all. At the very least you'll then be even more interested in the NX in a couple of years when games have been released and the price has become more reasonable.
I think you're looking at least a year of waiting and then a potentially expensive console with few games. Picking up a handheld after its built itself a nice little library is much more bang for your buck I reckon.
Nintendo is undoubtedly aware of how lucrative the handheld market is, and how dangerous it is to test that audiences' patience with abstract concepts like a console/handheld hybrid (not happening, by the way). They will keep a separate market for both so they can explore new ideas independently, as well as possibly trying to tie both system lines together.
But no, the NX will eventually succeed the WiiU, but even with the low attach rate, it would be suicidal to just shoot it down the moment a new system launches, as that would heavily antagonize WiiU owners.
Hybrid and replacing both, the handheld market is getting smaller each generation and they need to shake things up. I'll happily be proven wrong, by Nintendo themselves ina few months.
As others have said, I do not think there's any dimension in which the NX is going to cost $149.99/£100, though I do think it's likely that there will be different models available at difference price points. As @IceClimbers said, the platform is most likely an ecosystem — my thinking is that it'll be something like a family of devices (console and handheld) that share a common operating system and common games (i.e. the iPhone and iPad).
In terms of whether jumping in on the 3DS is worth it, that's up to your own personal judgment and budget. The way I'd look at is this: the NX will likely launch holiday 2016 at the earliest, so whatever you spend on the 3DS is an investment into about a year's worth of gaming (and of course, the 3DS and its great library won't disappear when the NX launches). If you like to be completely current, you'll also be able to trade in or sell the 3DS toward the cost of an NX. The worth of that situation is really up to you.
I don't think it's replacing both because I can't see how such a device would be cheap enough to be marketable or powerful enough to make the Wii U obsolete. I also can't see them replacing neither because they're having enough trouble supporting two tiers let alone three. There's another theory that has evolved where people think it'll replace neither and they won't have to support it because it'll just have existing software on it. I doubt they'd be giving that much fanfare for a Wii U micro, 3DS TV or VC Box.
The safest bet is that it's going to replace one or the other. As people will repeat like a broken record the Wii U isn't carving out as much of the market as many would have hoped. The only way to try and resolve that other than more software is more impressive hardware. The only way the hardware is going to get better for a home console at this stage is if it's successor is also a home console. Because physics. The 3DS on the other hand doesn't have the same marketshare issues but what it does have is ageing hardware. There is nothing they can do for the 3DS at this point other than new hardware. So they're going to replace it with something eventually and the NX might well be that replacement.
@Operationgamer17: To be fair, though, they also said that about the DS and the Game Boy line. I think that sort of statement is a matter of not wanting to alienate current or potential customers — I'd be shocked if Nintendo keeps supporting the Wii U or 3DS much at all after the NX.
@Operationgamer17: Read the quote itself rather than just the conclusions the writer came to. I don't think the use of the word "simple" was an accident. I'd also add that I wouldn't think of the Wii U as a "simple" replacement for the Wii, or the Wii to the Gamecube or DS to GBA...
Some playlists: Top All Time Songs, Top Last Year
"Don't stir the pot" is a nice way of saying "they're too dumb to reason with"
It's funny this came up, because it's been on my mind a lot.
I'll be honest - I love my Wii U. I've always said it's an awesome console with awesome games, and I'm going to stick to that. I'm deep into Mario Marker now along with maxing stuff out in Hyrule Warriors - I haven't even gotten to Wooly World (saving that for the holidays - I made my own holiday release! ha!) yet, and I still have stuff to wrap up in 3D World and even Luigi U. In short, I have PLENTY to do on my Wii U. I hope they don't replace it.
Now, the 3DS is another story. The hardware, as skywake said, is certainly aging. And portable has always been a market Nintendo manages to do well in, even with smart phones in the last decade. I think it would make the most BUSINESS sense for the NX to be a new portable (and leave behind the DS line perhaps for good), as Nintendo probably has more to lose if the 3DS starts to fall off rapidly and they don't take advantage of a business space with effectively no direct competitor. The Wii U hasn't delivered, yes, but it's already out there and, really, the only way for it to go is up in terms of sales. I think a new home platform will come in two years.
Forums
Topic: Will the Nintendo NX replace the 3DS and/or Wii U?
Posts 1 to 20 of 24
This topic has been archived, no further posts can be added.