Yeah, I am very curious about the NX and although internet speculation does portray the system as the 'saviour' of Nintendo by bringing them to the 21st century, I am also in the doubt that it is that.Originally Posted by Gutsman Heavy
Basically as a Youtube commentator said, Nintendo is ran by old men who still think it's the 1980s and 90s. They refuse to budge from their obsolete ideals and practices. Back in the 80s and 90s Nintendo was a huge innovator and seemed to be willing to try out new technologies to stay ahead of the curve and that indeed worked for them with massive success. However by the time the mid to late 90s arrived, they decided to stop innovating and begun sticking to what they know worked for them without letting go. You can see those disastrous practices in the well documented SNES CD debacle and their persistence on sticking to cartridges for the N64 when the rest of the industry had moved on. That Pig headed thinking is actually what ended up given rise to Sony but they still don't seem to have learned.
The most innovating thing they did post 2000 was probably trying to reach out to the casual market with the Wii and the 'lame' motion control games like wiifit and whatnot. That allowed them to sell a shit load of consoles despite the severe HW deficiencies of the Wii which was basically two gamecubes stuck together as well as all their shovel ware they kept putting out to maintain their attention. However as the WiiU has shown, casual gamers don't stick around and quickly move on to other things so with the Wii 'casual gamer priority' practices, they managed to further alienate much of the dedicated gamers who moved on to other consoles and of course, the 3P developers go where they can find the most audience with less hassles.
Unfortunately Nintendo is still sticking to their guns in regards to the 'hassles' for both 3P developers and consumers. They refuse to update their practices when it comes to regions, they refuse to fully accept User based online inter-connectivity (basically your console is the account so if you loose it - bad luck). I can't buy a Virtual Console title on the Wii U and also play it on the 3DS, they refuse to have standard Dolby/DTS surround sound features and don't know how to properly implement MPCM - They don't want to make their console a multimedia machine so it doesn't have a bluray player and although Apps like Netflix exists, it is limited by region as well as much of their online library.
The hassles that 3P developers face are well known with abhorrent licensing fees and demands. There is also the non-standard HW that is not worth developing for since most of the gaming audience has moved on to more standardised 'x86' based consoles which are more developer friendly.
As long as the current mob is there like Iwata, I have no hope of seeing much that will bring Nintendo into the 21st century and into a commanding lead once again in the gaming industry. They need new blood there who appreciates the legacy of the company as well as the progress of the industry.
Happy Birthday Hursti and congrats on the new PC! I have always felt that the PC is the definitive gaming platform. It is cheap to built if you know what you are doing and always remains ahead of the technology curve if properly maintained which is no more than a couple of hundred bucks every 3-5 years. In the long run, it comes out cheaper than keeping up with consoles and always with superior graphics and sound if plugged in properly.I built this Beast for my 30th Birthday gift to myself...
The aim was to build a "Mid-Spec" machine that'd last the next 5 years at least, being able to handle Carmageddon: Reincarnation & Doom(4), but also so I could simply play games at all as my outgoing PC had just been thoroughly used and had met the end of its life (Being built in mid '08).
It'll also allow me to get better accustomed with a modern Windows environment, as I've been using XP since, oooooooh... '02?
I should also be able to do what I do with PCs a little quicker too, hopefully being able to now rip my Cartoon DVD collection as easily as my CD collection!
In recent years, I have moved away from 'desktop' gaming and moved my gaming PC to the living room. It is difficult to go back when you are playing your favourite game on a big TV screen and running your sound through a Surround Sound system.
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