Nintendo "Fusion" - The Bear and Badger

davyK

I would be more surprised if they weren't working on the next gen - I'm sure Sony and Microsoft are too.

monkey

Sasukekun wrote:

They willing to throw all those people that bought WiiU's under the bus to get a 'net-gen' system out there?
I understand it'll be backwards compatible. But to abandon the WiiU like that would be horrendous.

I don't own a WiiU, and would probably feel differently if I did, but there's no point throwing good money after bad. The WiiU is a disaster, they should fuck it off if they think they can do better. The alternative is Nintendo fade further into irrelevance for a period of years then attempt a big relaunch when people give even less of a shit than they do now. And their customers aren't necessarily better served by Ninty sticking with a moribund platform out of some sense of providing value or whatever.

It would be a big risk if they did replace it so quickly though. Proper Sega scenario if they fuck it up again.

monkey

Ftr, I'm with Funko and reckon those specs are bullshit.

mistercrayon

Looks less powerful than the current gen! Wtf. 4rams! The thing needs parroty.

Diluted Dante

The 3DS was a disaster. Look at it now.

monkey

Diluted Dante wrote:

The 3DS was a disaster. Look at it now.

It's true that you shouldn't judge too much from the first year alone. The fact that Nintendo seem to be changing course rather than digging in doesn't offer much hope for it though.

beano

Sasukekun wrote:

Nintendo need to take the concept of mobile gaming and combine it into the home console experience. A machine that you can play at home on the TV and then effortless detach and take it on your commute with you.

How about tendo on mobile...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/209011/Ask_Gamasutra_Time_for_Nintendo_to_make_some_mobile_games.php

Moot_Geeza

beano wrote:

Sasukekun wrote:

Nintendo need to take the concept of mobile gaming and combine it into the home console experience. A machine that you can play at home on the TV and then effortless detach and take it on your commute with you.

How about tendo on mobile... http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/209011/Ask_Gamasutra_Time_for_Nintendo_to_make_some_mobile_games.php

I haven't got time to read it right now, but anything Kris Graft says is probably correct, given that he's holding an action RPG that's better than Zelda III in his little pic.

Diluted Dante

Nintendo on mobile doesn't make sense.

I_R

Diluted Dante wrote:

Nintendo on mobile doesn't make sense.

These things are always what people want, not what makes sense.

Diluted Dante

Fair point.

WorKid

Smells like bullshit to me.

A fairly random set of useless features and silly guesses.

Whatever.

Wookienopants

Hmm, a random set of specs released with a new code name?
Nah, don't buy it.

Can't see Nintendo abandoning their trajectory, rather I see them stubbornly sticking to their guns and slowly trickling out 1st party games for their under performing WiiU.

I would just like some more marketing! And some effort to get more 3rd party support!

WorKid

The more I read the specs the sillier they sound.

Funkstain

Loving the "co-processor" the most. Just weird enough that people will go "ooh you wouldn't make THAT bit up"

It's bullshit, Nintendo are working (R&Ding) their next thing, otherwise what are all those hardware / middleware fucks doing all day. But this is bullshit.

Look literally two more games worth having and I'll buy the wii u. I promise.

Fucking mobile phone games can fuck off. Alright for tapping about a bit for a while, but the range of games is severely limited by shonky input. Proper Mario on touch screen? You really think Nintendo will go for that?

krs

If this does exist then it hasn't sold a single unit and doesn't have any third party titles at all making it an even bigger failure than the Wii U. Give it up, Nintendo; it's over.

beano

Yeah become a third party dev!!

Moot_Geeza

retroking1981 wrote:

have a PS+ Club Nintendo thing

All Virtual Console games should be 'free to play' while you have an active subscription. It would be interesting to see how much money Nintendo has made from the NES/SNES/N64 downloads on the Wii/WIiU. Not nearly as much as if each user paid a £30 yearly sub, I'd wager.

mistercrayon

30 quid is about two vc games. Amirite lol.

(in other news Nintendo does like the rental model, see pokemon bank, wii sports and karaoke)

retroking1981

Not all games, thats just dumb. They should follow the PS+ model to the T, its pretty much perfect.

Edit: Maybe FREE for the month they're released, then they go on the eshop for £X with a discount for Club Nintendo subscribers.

Moot_Geeza

retroking1981 wrote:

Not all games, thats just dumb. They should follow the PS+ model to the T, its pretty much perfect. Edit: Maybe FREE for the month they're released, then they go on the eshop for £X with a discount for Club Nintendo subscribers.

Nintendo need bums on seats holding tablets, and if they want people to subscribe to a console that'll obviously launch with fuck-all games they should push the boat out with the freebies. Not that the prospect of playing 16-bit games would sway the masses, but honestly, how many people buy those NES games for £3.50? I genuinely have no idea.

mistercrayon

Mario 3 is probably worth more than 3 quid.

retroking1981

I know a fair few sold over a million each on the Wii.

Problem seemed to be everyone released most of what they had the rights to within the first few years of the Wii and the service died due to lack of new content.

With the Wii U its the mirror opposite. How many VC games are on it? 50 tops? On the Wii you got 3 released every single Thursday night for at least the first year or two.

The depressing thing is the Wii never had a games drought, the Wii U could do with anything, even if it is a SNES VC game.

WorKid

Yup - at the risk of sounding like G, the depressing thing is we're even talking about filling the release schedule with 16bit games.

hunk

Here' s a suggestion: Virtual console games, downloadable on fusion ds, playable on the go and on the livingroom big screen when connected to base station.

What are you waiting for Nintendo?

WorKid

Also: telepathy.

Moot_Geeza

retroking1981 wrote:

I know a fair few sold over a million each on the Wii.

I'm shocked that any of them got anywhere near those numbers (and pleasantly surprised). I assumed most of the casual crowd didn't even connect their Wii's to the internet.

hunk

I am Reggie's homunculus.

Escape

I wrote an imaginary list of VC prices once...

NES - 99p
SNES - £1.99
N64 - £2.99
GameCube - £3.99
Wii - £4.99

As many games as Nintendo have the rights to, available at once, with save-anywheres and GamePad support. In NTSC.

I think Nintendo are suffering a delayed reaction to being caught with their pants down. Holding back content has worked for them until recently, and they just aren't reacting to this post-Wii iWorld.

mk64

Diluted Dante wrote:

The 3DS was a disaster. Look at it now.

very sensationalised.

It had a reasonable line up

and i'm fairly sure it outsold the vita throughout its history (apart from when things like monster hunter came out)

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