Nintendo NX

[JimboUK]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-26-nx-is-a-portable-console-with-detachable-controllers

 

If this is true then they really have lost the plot, a handheld that turns into an underpowered home console, well done.

[iXenite]

I've kind of come to the conclusion that Nintendo has no interest in being competitive with Microsoft or Sony in the console games market. They do their own thing, and it seems to work well enough for them. To be fair though, their games also don't really beg for more graphics power anyway. I do think they should reconsider their stance on console development in the future - third party developers already have no interest in the Wii U. This isn't really helping. Though, you could also argue that no one has ever bought a Nintendo console to play anything other than their Exclusive titles.

[TehLifelessMAn]

I've kind of come to the conclusion that Nintendo has no interest in being competitive with Microsoft or Sony in the console games market. They do their own thing, and it seems to work well enough for them. To be fair though, their games also don't really beg for more graphics power anyway. I do think they should reconsider their stance on console development in the future - third party developers already have no interest in the Wii U. This isn't really helping. Though, you could also argue that no one has ever bought a Nintendo console to play anything other than their Exclusive titles.

 

That kind of mindset however will not allow the company to survive into future Generations of gaming, constantly not making consoles acceptable for third party games is going to bite them back, not wanting to rely on 3rd party games is what killed Atari, it is what saved Nintendo in the 80's, and them abandoning it might kill it in the 2020's.

[JimboUK]

 

I've kind of come to the conclusion that Nintendo has no interest in being competitive with Microsoft or Sony in the console games market. They do their own thing, and it seems to work well enough for them. To be fair though, their games also don't really beg for more graphics power anyway. I do think they should reconsider their stance on console development in the future - third party developers already have no interest in the Wii U. This isn't really helping. Though, you could also argue that no one has ever bought a Nintendo console to play anything other than their Exclusive titles.

 

That kind of mindset however will not allow the company to survive into future Generations of gaming, constantly not making consoles acceptable for third party games is going to bite them back, not wanting to rely on 3rd party games is what killed Atari, it is what saved Nintendo in the 80's, and them abandoning it might kill it in the 2020's.

 

 

Nintendo's own IPs aren't going to keep saving them, there'll be a younger generation now that didn't own a Gamecube, Wii or Wii-U, chances are Nintendo's IPs mean nothing to them and it's going to get worse as time goes on, they need those third parties to bring people in to play the first party titles and it ain't gonna happen if the specs of the NX turn out to be right.

 

As for competition, they'd stand a better chance against Microsoft and Sony in the home market than they would against Google and Apple in the mobile one.