He didn't say the NX is part of the mobile focus, I think he just means they want to make some good mobile games since it's a market they've barely touched. I doubt the NX is going to be a phone.
Nintendo: NX Won't be Sold at a Loss, Will Focus Heavily on Mobile
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Yay! I can't wait for Tap Mario Tap and the Legend of Zelda Mobile! You want actual proper games? Pfft screw that, time to milk the mobile market!
My point was that gaming/phone hybrids don't work. You can only do one with any chance of success. This isn't casual gaming we're discussing here, some bored person playing Angry Birds for 5 minutes while waiting for a bus, nothing like that. The NX is being touted as a proper gaming experience. If they try marrying it with a phone, it is going to fail.Dead Metal said:
They're not marrying the NX with a phone. He first talks about the NX, he then later hads that along with the NX Nintendo will do more with the mobile market after the success of Miitomo.008Zulu said:
He isn't saying that both will be the same, just that they're not putting all their eggs in one basket.
Yes. Very much so. Japanese apartments are TINY compared what western countries consider normal. Having a dedicated "entertainment center" that can accommodate a game console is much more rare. Since TVs have become flatter, the norm for a an up-to-date residence is flat-screen mounted on the wall with all cords inside the wall, so that the TV takes up as little space as a wall painting or poster.SonOfVoorhees said:
Handheld and mobile phone gaming is the much more popular option for the game-buying public.
Tatsumi Kimishima says two different things here. One is "the NX will not be sold at a loss". Despite what the comments section seems to think, that's not a bad thing. If it hadn't come with the Kinect, I imagine the Xbox One wouldn't have been sold at a loss either. It doesn't mean it will be underpowered, it means the NX will use components that will cost about $300-400 all up, which is fairly standard.
The second is that he says that Nintendo will "focus heavily on mobile". He's just repeating what was said earlier by the late Satoru Iwata. The only reason it's actually a big deal now is because Kimishima is not a developer, so that makes it worse apparently. And for those of you complaining about Miyamoto being put on app development, remember that he no longer produces Zelda or Metroid, arguably the two home console giants for Nintendo. His main production is Mario, and that can easily be recreated on a phone. So it's not that nonsensical.
And to the author: as I mentioned above, he says two different things. So don't try to link them together just to gets clicks.
The second is that he says that Nintendo will "focus heavily on mobile". He's just repeating what was said earlier by the late Satoru Iwata. The only reason it's actually a big deal now is because Kimishima is not a developer, so that makes it worse apparently. And for those of you complaining about Miyamoto being put on app development, remember that he no longer produces Zelda or Metroid, arguably the two home console giants for Nintendo. His main production is Mario, and that can easily be recreated on a phone. So it's not that nonsensical.
And to the author: as I mentioned above, he says two different things. So don't try to link them together just to gets clicks.
No. Not selling at a loss means they will either break even or sell at a profit. Neither would be a shock, as Nintendo's done 'em both.dragongit said:
What it means is only that the cost of the hardware will not exceed the per unit price. And probably not actually retail price.
There was one theory I heard that does sound rather interesting: that the new Nintendo consoles will go back to a cartridge system instead of discs. The downside is that the cartridges are more cumbersome to store and difficult to produce, but with the recent developments in harddrive technology (which cartridges are, for the most part), you could fit so much more on them. Hell, I've got a 1 TB harddrive that's about half the size of my Majora's Mask cartridge, and that one is still a bit old.
Imagine what you could do if you had 1 TB of harddrive to fill with just one game! Hell, 500 GB is still a pretty good size for most games! You can have all the swanky graphics you want, without the need to skimp on content! You could make music with highquality audio, all on WAV och OGG-files! Of course it still won't solve the general cost for developing games, but it's something.
Imagine what you could do if you had 1 TB of harddrive to fill with just one game! Hell, 500 GB is still a pretty good size for most games! You can have all the swanky graphics you want, without the need to skimp on content! You could make music with highquality audio, all on WAV och OGG-files! Of course it still won't solve the general cost for developing games, but it's something.
They will use Flash technology if this comes to fruition. HDDs are too large (physically), too loud, too slow and break too easily. Plus they already use SSDs in the Wii U and SD Cards in the 3DS, so that could just be a logical extension. If they use Flash tech then it is likely that they will support up to 128GB cards, as the largest modern game I know of (ESO) is 80GB in size.C117 said: