http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1218924
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1218933
Yet another NX rumor
This time it omes in a pair!
One from Emily Rogers, one from Semi-Accurate (quite the title)
Hardware stuff I don't understand!
Every time I read the comments on these threads and every time I regret it.
I feel like I'm getting Nintendoomed pumped into my bloodstream.
There
was one person on that thread that at least pointed out something that I thought of at one point: that this is still Iwata's baby, and that we won't be able to see what Kimishima can really do until if and when we get another system after this. Because yes, at this point Kimishima is just stuck with whatever was in the works beforehand and at this point the best he can do is try to steer the advertising and whatever software he can to it in the hopes that this thing won't crash and burn.
And yes, gamers are going to nigh-unanimously hate whatever the NX is no matter what it is. They already DO. They have for MONTHS. But the Wii U came out at a. . .horrendous time to appeal to casual gamers, what with it being at the height of the iPad craze and being named not unlike all the constant yet meaningless phone upgrades, so if they just give it an unused gimmick and avoid naming it another variant on Wii then it at least stands SOME chance of tapping into that market enough for Nintendo to make it to the next generation, at which point if successful they will. . .probably continue to ignore gamers to some degree or other because reducing system creation down to a Console Holy War (TM) fueled *innuendo* measuring contest doesn't even make any logical business sense.
Heck, if Nintendo did do exactly what was asked of them, people would probably just find a different excuse for why they're refusing to buy their systems. We all know short of ditching all their IPs and renaming themselves they're never getting rid of "kiddy."
If it can at least stay
roughly on par with the other systems currently out, it can ride the wave of ports until the next Nintendo system because the PS4 and Xbox 1 will likely still have a couple years in them after the NX comes out and from there people will be porting backwards to said PS4 and Xbox 1 for half a gen afterwards anyway the same way the PS360 have been treated for a while and the same way the PS2 was treated before them.
I suppose there's always the chance that their architecture will be completely alien in some fashion, but we really don't have any indication on that other than "It's not what the other guys are using," which is. . .not helpful when the only things I can even gather on that front is that x86 is modern, PowerPC is ancient, and there's some ARM or whatever thing a couple other people pointed out that it could be that the biggest Nintendoomers are ignoring the existence of altogether and may or may not be cross-compatible with x86 who knows people didn't discuss it much.
And then there's the possibility that the third parties will be every bit as unwelcoming as the internet no matter how it's built, in which case. . .either Nintendo is going it solo or they're just going to start outright bribing third parties to bring their games over.