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In an exclusive interview with [a]listdaily yesterday, Reggie Fils-Aimé, the CEO of Nintendo of America, explained that Nintendo needs to improve their communication of "the positioning" of the NX during its launch, going on to say how they need to do a better job helping people understand the "uniqueness" of the system and what it means for "the game-playing experience".

Furthermore, Fils-Aimé goes on to say how the NX needs to have a "continuous beat" of games for the system, which would create the urge to motivate "more and more people to pick up the hardware."

"We always do our breakdown of what worked, what didn’t, and certainly we’ve done that with Wii U, and we continue to believe that the innovation of the second screen was a worthwhile concept...... when we launch the NX—we have to do a better job communicating the positioning for the product. We have to do a better job helping people to understand its uniqueness and what that means for the game playing experience." ~ Reggie Fils-Aimé

The NX is still yet to be unveiled by Nintendo, however it is said to be a home-console/portable with datachable controllers.

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Source (main interview with Reggie himself)

 

[SnakeOil992]

IDK the concept makes power a lot less of an issue.

Look, I may not be a sucker for graphics but knowing the insatiable gaming community, specs that amaze are always needed for good sales. The Wii however, somehow beat that ''rule'' to the ground. Maybe Nintendo needs to bring its old demographic back. Maybe.

 

[TheDarkGreninja]

Look, I may nt be a sucker for graphics but knowing the unsatiable gaming community, specs that amaze are always needed for good sales. The Wii however, somehow beat that ''rule'' to the ground. Maybe Nintendo needs to bring its old demographic back. Maybe.

time will tell.

 

[Jacklack3]

I think it's better to have the console different.

You guys would complain if it was like a normal console.

"Oh! Everything is so boring! Nintendo isn't like this!"

This isn't 1985 where consoles are the same, this is 2016 where consoles should be unique.

It's like WarioWare, every game brings something new to the table.

I think the design is great and seems amazing, you can basically play anywhere and when you get home you will have a even more fun experience.

Also am I the only one who thought the Wii and Wii U were awesome?

No just me? Okay.

 

[TheDarkGreninja]

I think it's better to have the console different.

You guys would complain if it was like a normal console.

"Oh! Everything is so boring! Nintendo isn't like this!"

This isn't 1985 where consoles are the same, this is 2016 where consoles should be unique.

It's like WarioWare, every game brings something new to the table.

I think the design is great and seems amazing, you can basically play anywhere and when you get home you will have a even more fun experience.

Also am I the only one who thought the Wii and Wii U were awesome?

No just me? Okay.

yep.... The wii u was nice, not the wii.

 

[Deleted member 370671]

I think it's better to have the console different.

You guys would complain if it was like a normal console.

"Oh! Everything is so boring! Nintendo isn't like this!"

This isn't 1985 where consoles are the same, this is 2016 where consoles should be unique.

I agree with that. The XBOne / PS4 are basically underpowered PCs, and there's practically no reason to buy them if you have a computer.

I think the design is great and seems amazing, you can basically play anywhere and when you get home you will have a even more fun experience.

Yes, I also think the design looks great, but I don't think the console should be more fun when you're at home. The experience should be different, yes, but not more or less fun. If one "mode" is better than the other, then there's not any point in making a hybrid device.

Also am I the only one who thought the Wii and Wii U were awesome?

tbh I really like the Wii U, but not really the Wii. Probably because of the controller though (I don't like the Wiimote )

 

[Jacklack3]

Yes, I also think the design looks great, but I don't think the console should be more fun when you're at home. The experience should be different, yes, but not more or less fun. If one "mode" is better than the other, then there's not any point in making a hybrid device.

I guess that's true. I guess i meant that the experience would be different. It would be a bad choice to create something that's more fun than something that is the same thing.

 

[Foxi4]

I agree with that. The XBOne / PS4 are basically underpowered PCs, and there's practically no reason to buy them if you have a computer.

I hate when people say that, neither is anything like a PC. It's just like saying that an Xbox 360 is basically a Mac since it runs on a PPC CPU. Both the PS4 and the Xbox One use custom chips, they're no different than any other console. Consoles exist in the same pool of technology as other computers, everything is derivative of something else.

 

[omgpwn666]

Watch the name be New Wii U.

 

[TheDarkGreninja]

I agree with that. The XBOne / PS4 are basically underpowered PCs, and there's practically no reason to buy them if you have a computer.


Yes, I also think the design looks great, but I don't think the console should be more fun when you're at home. The experience should be different, yes, but not more or less fun. If one "mode" is better than the other, then there's not any point in making a hybrid device.


tbh I really like the Wii U, but not really the Wii. Probably because of the controller though (I don't like the Wiimote )

Im definite that there will be a home console.

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Watch the name be New Wii U.

even though they said its not a syccesor?

 

[Deleted member 370671]

I hate when people say that, neither is anything like a PC. It's just like saying that an Xbox 360 is basically a Mac since it runs on a PPC CPU. Both the PS4 and the Xbox One use custom chips, they're no different than any other console. Consoles exist in the same pool of technology as other computers, everything is derivative of something else.

I wasn't talking about the internals, but about the experience. Yes, of course they use custom chips and are different from PCs in many ways, but in terms of games, most of them (well, I admit there are a few good exclusives on PS4) are available on PC. I don't think anyone bought the XBOne simply because it uses an AMD CPU, but rather to play games that are interesting, the same way people buy (or don't buy) a Wii U because of its games, and in particular exclusives.

 

[TheDarkGreninja]

I wasn't talking about the internals, but about the experience. Yes, of course they use custom chips and are different from PCs in many ways, but in terms of games, most of them (well, I admit there are a few good exclusives on PS4) are available on PC. I don't think anyone bought the XBOne simply because it uses an AMD CPU, but rather to play games that are interesting, the same way people buy (or don't buy) a Wii U because of its games, and in particular exclusives.

Thanks for the elaboration.

 

[Foxi4]

I wasn't talking about the internals, but about the experience. Yes, of course they use custom chips and are different from PCs in many ways, but in terms of games, most of them (well, I admit there are a few good exclusives on PS4) are available on PC. I don't think anyone bought the XBOne simply because it uses an AMD CPU, but rather to play games that are interesting, the same way people buy (or don't buy) a Wii U because of its games, and in particular exclusives.

I certainly didn't buy my PS4 to play Sony exclusives - I bought it to play games, period. We're in a gaming community, we're all fanatics of gaming, so it's often hard for us to disassociate, but the fact is that the average customer isn't like us in any way - the average customer owns one gaming platform. There's this prevalent idea that people own multiple systems or that they own consoles in addition to gaming PC's - they don't. Most people own shitty laptops that are mostly used for browsing Facebook and can support League and Runescape at best, they're not going to run multiplats at 1080p, 60FPS like everyone seems to think. What good is a Wii U if I can't get my GTA's on it? Exclusives are nice additional benefits, they can sway you one way or the other, but the primary concern is overwhelming support of the industry, which the Wii U doesn't have while the PS4 and the Xbox One do. You can have a million Smashes or Mario Karts, but without the bread and butter of multiplats you are nothing. The fact that the PS4's and the Xbox One's libraries are mostly multiplats is not a detriment, it's one of their biggest strengths - they provide a comprehensive gaming experience throughout the generation and the Wii U does not, which is why it failed miserably, so let's take a step back, forget the exclusives for one second and just have a competently made piece of hardware for God's sake. Going all exotic with the hardware is stupid - you're killing industry support and that's a guarantee that your customers will miss out on all the popular blockbuster titles, which creates resentment towards your brand.

 

[Gaming796]

WHOA HAPPENING! REGGIE = GOD

NINTENDO IS SAVED GUYS

Yeah.

 

[FeverishJackal]

I actually really liked the Wii. Still do, but I lost my games for it

 

[Viri]

I agree with that. The XBOne / PS4 are basically underpowered PCs, and there's practically no reason to buy them if you have a computer.

NOT UH! the Xbone has kinect, you can talk to your Xbone to tell it to turn on, and you can watch tv with it!

TV!

Oh, and you can fap while the NSA watches you, isn't that the hottest thing ever? You'll never feel alone!

 

[FAST6191]

This isn't 1985 where consoles are the same, this is 2016 where consoles should be unique.

Why do I want unique consoles rather than a DVD player what also does games.

Equally I fear you might benefit from reading up on the hardware specs of the consoles from the times mentioned. There were real differences for all consoles up until around the PS360 (one was a powerpc with directX9 grade graphics and the other was a slightly different but broadly similar powerpc with directX9 grade graphics), and definitely back in the 80s -- SNES, Amiga and megadrive was pretty radically different in CPU, graphics, cart design, sound chips and more besides, NES and master system/commodore64/TG16.... and it only gets worse.

 

[EstPC13]

I believe Nintendo should repeat and improve the GC Strategy:

1. Make a console with amazing graphics power, or one that can be compared to the rest (I don't really care abotut the graphics but 3rd parties do, and Nintendo is literally swimming in cash).
2. Give it a nice design, and a great controller (Lay off the gimmicks for at least this gen, then come back next gen with one, beacuse it's The Big N).
3. Market the hell out of it and it's games.
4. DON'T give the fanbase exactly what they want, that never works out, give it something different, which you're already doing, because Nintendo)

 

[Bladexdsl]

1-3 they won't

 

[Youkai]

Lol so funny that they think they need to tell us how great their console is and that they think the Wii U only sucked because they didn't tell us about its awesomeness and all of us were just to stupid to see it on our own.
Man I really hate that guy XD

But than again now after all those "bad" speculations about the NX it can only be better than what I imagine IF they actually manage to make it even worse than my imagination after some of the bad speculations than I guess Nintendo should stop making consoles ... but maybe it will be good ^^V

 

[EstPC13]

1-3 they won't

I know, I just want them to succeed so badly...