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So reading news this past week coming out of both microsoft and sony does anyone else get the feeling that each of them have already internally called this generation a wash? Just seems like they are looking at the next go around rather thansalvaging this one already 4 years in.
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@Rasterman @Jim The Wii U was probably always intended to be a transitionary console (the Switch nailed the console-handheld hybrid formula so well at launch that I have a hard time believing it was seriously rushed because the Wii U was bombing), hence the less ambitious 3D Mario and the lack of some key franchises, but there's no way Nintendo expected it to flop half as bad as it did. But the work Nintendo did to achieve the Wii U's own pseudo-portability was always going to just be a stepping stone on the way to a true home console on the go.
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@ChristiJunior @Rasterman I also get the feeling they will further refine this design philosophy with the next upcoming console nailing down the formula even more for a perfect hybrid.
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@Jim For reference, would you say Nintendo did the same with the Wii U?
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@c Budgets are hyper inflated with dev times so long genres and mechanics that at the onset were popular by completion are outdated and disliked. File sizes are bloated due to legit laziness in attempting compression approaches and work arounds. The ship it first, fix it later mentality is unacceptable and more than likely an outgrowth of the move to purely digital releases. More care is put into the marketing of early release dlc than the core product. It really is a shitshow.
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Gaming needs a massive crash. This market is saturated with bloated Hollywood trash and normie consumers. Even beyond the impact this will have on these big companies, I'll just be happy to see people who actually care get a bigger share of the market, however miniscule that will become soon. We don't need more Bear Fucker 3 or Starflop.
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@Rasterman @ChristiJunior I think the device should have a dock which boosts performance, then instead of selling numerous reiterations of the core device they could market a line of docks with power and features that are tailored best to each users needs
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@Jim @ChristiJunior I was surprised the dock was never much of anything. Assumed it'd have some extra parts to make games run better in TV mode.
Apparently, Asus has a similar device that does that.
That's all I can think of in terms of improving the formula. :thinking:
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@coolboymew @ChristiJunior @Rasterman I think its doable if the approach is "our handheld play is standard across the board for everyone and home play is tilored to your wants", it's basically allowing people a pro version of the device for a few hundred and as time goes on cost to manfacture goes down. hell the could use it to do a few high end versions over the devices lifespan
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@Jim @ChristiJunior @Rasterman It would probably cost too much to do that. You'd need to add an external GPU, or even a chip with DLSS, I don't think there's any cheap chips that can do that. So the idea is bust because it would make the dock cost like hundreds of dollars
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