It actually is possible to built something that as powerful as the current gen consoles and have it cost less. I remember Gamespot running videos on PC builds showing exactly that.
Does that take into account the cost in making the making the facilities for those consoles to be mass-produced?
NX probably won’t be available for at least the next three years.
I’m sure its possible to design something as powerful or moreso than the overpriced paperweights and have it not break the bank.
But since this is Nintendo, I don’t expect them to do that.
Worst thing is we can only speculate what Project NX is for the time being.
I agree with Po Nintendo needs to drop the Wii brand. Don’t call your next console Wii.
Hell call what ever it is the NX, that be fine. Hell the Project name for the Wii, the Revolution was a better name than the Wii.
Hell bring back the Famicom brand, that better than Wii.
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There you go call it the Famicom NX. You can even make the delux edition of the console in the original Famicom or NES color scheme.
The Wii is one of the best consoles I’ve ever owned. I still use that thing.
Not for the reasons Nintendo wanted, but…nonetheless. You have the world at your fingertips with a Wii.
I think Nintendo was at their apex in terms of consoles with the GameCube.
I’ve never understood why they call it the fucking Wii anyway. That shit sounded stupid from day one.
Also don’t consoles nowadays use custom made or modified components or something? You aren’t gonna be able to budget build an entire line of mass produced electronics like that for cheap.
NX will be slightly weaker than the twins in some way. Whether it be processing speed, number of cores or amount of RAM. I’m calling that
I tend to disagree. I think Nintendo hit their prime with the SNES, then drop sharply off into a decline.
Nintendo’s Golden Age was very much with the NES, they revived an almost dead industry and they dominated the market.
Very few consoles could compete.
Nintendo’s Silver Age was with the SNES, yes they had stiff competition from Sega and the Genesis/Megadrive but it gotten Nintendo to sharpen it’s teeth.
Sega could of taken the lead, but a plethora of useless add-ons for the Genesis and poor marketing hurt the Saturn and Dreamcast.
Nintendo insistence on blindly following Gunpei Yoki’s philosophy of “Lateral thinking though withered technology” ended up hurting them. its why the Wii and Wii U is not a real competitor compared to Sony and MS.
I view it as the N64 signaled the decline in Nintendo dominance. Many of its aging customer based wanted more grown up taste that the PlayStation (PS1) offered leaving the N64 to kids.
The N64 had more capability to push more Polygons than the PS1, but the limited memory format of game carts keep high textures, CD quality sound and full motion video out of the N64’s grasp.
I viewed it as Nintendo never got up to steam and won back their older customers with the Game Cube. The Game Cube didn’t seem as reliant as the PS2, Original Xbox and Dreamcast. Many Highscool and college students regarded the Game Cube more of a Toy than a real console due to it’s shape, size and that it had a handle.
After reading some of the info about the 2nd gen of consoles i have to ask what were they thinking when Atari, Coleco and Matel kept releasing games on the consoles of their rivals, like what the fuck?
Imagine if Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft were doing the same on this day and age.
Less than $400 is definitely a pipe dream, however $400 for just the system itself without anything else included is definitely possible. By itself the system will be selling it at a loss but it won’t be that much, the PS4 was also $400 at launch and initially sold at a very small loss (they may have gotten cheaper to produce over time), when you add in stuff like, controllers, peripherals, games, online services (unless they keep it free) and Amiibos which are all sold at a profit they can easily make back the money loss fast and then some.
Jimquisition on the whole Arkham Knight PC fiasco.
Speaking of which, I took a look at the review he mentioned…pretty much confirms a lot of the things that I had a problem with when watching playthroughs of Arkham Knight. But before I ignore the game entirely…anyone have any counter points to what he mentions? (Not including the PC issues which will hopefully be corrected by the time they put it back on Steam)
http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/06/batman-arkham-knight-review/
I want to look forward to Arkham Knight, as something to get in the future when a GOTY edition is released, but from what I’ve seen…there’s just nothing there that made me like Arkham Asylum so much, and the batmobile makes everything even worse.
I’ll never understand how more options makes a game worse, but that’s just me.
It makes it worse 'cause the batmobile looks horrible, AND it’s shoe-horned into just about everything on top of that, from what I’ve seen.
More options is not always better. Especially when that option isn’t really an “option” half the time.
Well, I was just speaking mostly from my own personal preference. The SNES was probably Nintendo’s biggest hit if we’re talking in terms of successfulness.
But still, the GameCube wasn’t a bad console by any means. It ran beautifully, and out of all the systems I’ve ever owned I never had a single issue with it outside of scratched game discs, which still wasn’t really its fault. It managed to run some of the best looking games of the console generation too, despite being second to the Xbox. Hell, a lot of its games looked better than some of the Xbox games that came out at the time. PS2, too. That’s why while I still think the Wii is a great system, it was a step in he wrong direction from the GC. Mandatory motion controls had a lot to do with that.
But hey, the Wii is a pirate’s dream now. Either way it all worked out in my favor.
It’s not our job to convince you to like stuff Will.
Perhaps not. Was just curious if anyone had any response to it.
Having beat AK the other day I have to admit that I was a little standoffish towards how much the game makes you use the Batmobile. But as I played more and thought of it as an extension of Batman himself (which it is), I only started loving it more and more. It’s an integral part of the gameplay and one of your best tools in the game.
And even if I hated every single thing about the Batmobile, the greatness that is the rest of the game was so awesome I could’ve easily overlooked it.
You have taste cancer.
Yeah, yeah, I’ve heard that one before.
Got any other knowledge to share, oh wise one?
Trixie worst pony
late to the party but this is my top five.
- majoras mask
- megaman legends
- earthbound/mother 3
- yume nikki/yume 2kki
- killer 7
after that would probably be
- mario 64
- dark souls
- chrono cross
- pikmin 3
- jet set radio future
forgot about jetset radio future replaced it with virtues last reward.