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Nintendo has been extremely careful not to talk about the NX until the anointed time. Due to the intense levels of silence and secrecy, rumors have been churning for a little over a year now. Interestingly enough, rumors of a new system appeared quite some time before the late Satoru Iwata first made mention of the console. Those rumors actually spoke of a potential hybrid system in the works.
While there is still next to nothing known about the Nintendo NX, the factor of it possibly being a hybrid still hasn’t been completely removed from the equation. Nothing like this has ever been done before. Nintendo is no stranger to introducing radical new ideas, so, not only is this right up its alley, but it could also be the most logical step for the company.
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TG: “Most of us also grew up with Nintendo, likely forming a nostalgic connection with games that have long been crowned as our personal favourites. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker was an experience that shaped my view on open world fantasy, and Super Mario 64 changed my life like it did for millions of others. These titles have earned their place in history, and remain loved to this day for so many worthwhile reasons. We replay them and beg for remasters all while delving into their worlds time and time again because they mean that much to us. It’s a shame then that the company behind them often kicks its own sweet darlings to the curb.”
I never got the love for Nintendo games personally. The annoying vocalizations and ugly character designs do nothing for me.
Don't forget the constant hand holding with tutorials. Learn this new ability by pressing Y, now prove that you can press Y 8 times before you can move on....
Another very weird article.
Nintendo is a great company by almost all possible normal measures. The biggest one being: their own staff is happy, and they seem to be very happy, well compensated and retain rate is solid. They are also financially very stable, profitable, and cash rich, so shareholders love them.
Overall it is an extremely creative group of people, and their mission statement is fantastic as well "to put smiles on the faces of everyone we touch. We do so by creating new surprises for people across the world to enjoy together." The social impact is also massive, not to speak culturally. Additionally, they have a really strong core business, high customer retention rate and loyalty. Nintendo's reputation is extremely good, I think in the US alone they are 9th most reputable company, their customer service is better than the average company. Plus, the press gives them a pass, because they are Nintendo. But there's a reason why they do that, it's not "because they are Nintendo", there are more layers to the argument.
Then, then there's the random negative gamers online...and their "reputation" which is inside their heads. And their western ideas of how a Japanese company should behave or what they should do. But they have no right to ask a company to do anything for them, because they can vote with their wallets.
There's a small vocal community online who dislikes Nintendo for what they are, but then again, there's always a small vocal community that dislikes something.
Nintendo also disagrees with the Western world about IP, but most people call Westerners "hidoi!" when they emulate Tears of the Kingdom and do not experience it the way Nintendo wanted them (even if it is not the best visual way), because it is a matter of principle to them (Japanese are very much against anything close to plagiarism, and there are laws that are tight about creative works copying etc.)
The Western Braveheart "freedoom!" shouters need to understand that it is not an American company, nor they need to behave like one. They can have their own fights based on their principles (against emulation). And they very well may lose the battle with that and change, or find a new audience.
In the end, it is so very simple. Don't buy the products if you don't like a company, but there's no need to paint a picture that is unrealistic about Nintendo either.
I hate virtually everything about their business practices, actually. Suing everybody for virtually anything, shooting down fan projects, games they never let devalue, their online infrastructure and how they handle BC.
They're lucky they make great games, because that's the only thing I feel they do right.
my issue with them, is the complete refusal to have decent tech for us.
and their odd censorship and lawsuits for modders.
I just don't agree. For the power of a PS4 it'd be near impossible to do as a handheld right now, not to mention costs would be through the roof. Why not just do a PS4 level console on 14nm FinFet and charge $299? So many people would buy it, and if you have good enough cross functionality with handhelds, you don't come off as someone trying to base all of your popularity on the handheld market, and desperate to merge functionality. It's the best of both worlds, and it comes at one DARING cost to Nintendo's current strategy. Admit that you're wrong about gaming and make a common sense console. Seriously. That's it.
Hell, they can even keep Wiimotes as a secondary function for motion play games and secondary controllers for multiplayer games- but they need to have a regular controller as the MAIN controller for single player.
I just don't see Nintendo making a handheld with the power of a PS4 anytime soon. Besides PS4 already does this "hybrid" concept via Remote Play through Vita, PSTV, certain Android smartphones, PC & Mac. I don't see how Nintendo could effectively top that level of flexibility.
Not to mention this would be very expensive. Developers would have to spend resources to make two versions of the same game on the same platform. With the rising costs of game development and growing irrelevance of Nintendo in the console market, I don't see that happening. That'd be too much a financial risk for many publishers to take.
When certain developers make a game on the console PS3 or PS4, they aren't required to make an accompanying handheld Vita version. That's always just an option, unlike it being a requirement for developers on NX if it were to supposedly be a hybrid console. In fact the way Sony currently does it just makes the idea seem less interesting if Nintendo were to make that the main appeal.
big headed nintendo ignoring gamers cause they got all this money from the wii days, arrogant like crazy
all people want is a more powerful console that rivals the others, but nooooooooo *uck gamers
All their developers under 1 roof.
They need to exit the console market warmly by having a device that can out to the TV. Their handheld is more successful long term then their consoles are. Its best they leave while they have the market.
12 million is a small market to cater to and I think its time they move on to focusing on their core market.
I agree with all this, but this is way more complicated than the video make i to be. The video avoid completely the technological aspect of the idea.
how can it be a handheld and home console if there is only one unit.
What the video describes is just Nintendo stopping to make home consoles and making a handheld that plugs into a TV instead.