When Reggie, the president of Nintendo of America, was asked yesterday about how he felt the NX stacks up against the new Xbox and Playstation consoles, he responded in an expected (but still disappointing) way.

"You know for us, it’s not about specs, it’s not about teraflops, it’s not about the horsepower of a particular system. For us it’s about content. Nintendo is a content focused company. We create entertainment that makes people smile so for us, we’re focused on bringing our best entertainment to the Wii U as well as the NX in the future.

For us whatever Microsoft and Sony are doing in terms of talking about new systems, that’s for them to fight out in that red ocean. For us, we want to make sure we're bringing our best content forward and right now the reaction to Zelda has been more than we could have ever imagined."

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I'm sure that we at the 'temp have a lot to say about this statement. Let us know your opinions below!

Source: Bloomberg.com

 

[TotalInsanity4]

The wiiu was designed by people that didn't even understand a lick of how networks like the PSN, Xbox live or even steam works.

Who hired those nitwits again?!? I wanted smash4K.

Do you own a gaming PC

 

[codezer0]

Do you own a gaming PC

Well, that goes without saying. But, what does that have anything to do with it? We're talking about the upcoming nintendo system, that's with this announcement going to bomb again because the Japanese board of directors apparently don't understand how to make money.

 

[orcid]

I understand that he said that they don't want to conpete withe the specs of the new consoles (scorpio and neo). I don`t expect the Nx less powerful than xbox one and ps4.

 

[Lucifer666]

How boring. Sounds very preachy; we know it's just a euphemism for it being an underpowered piece of **** that will sell like hotcakes to parents wanting to dish out cheap money to get a console for their kids. It'll have a good Mario game or two, a good Zelda game, a Zelda remake, promises of 3rd party support, with lots of cancellations when other developers actually try accommodating to its outlandish specs.

I love Nintendo but their home console game has taken a hit. At this point I would be OK with them deciding to take a handheld-only approach and release their console games on their competitors' systems.

Also, because I rarely get the opportunity to use this hilarious vid:

Spoiler

 

[gbaboy123]

what sells 3ds is smash, Mario kart, monster hunter, Zelda, kingdom hearts, donkey kong, mega man, street fighter, splinter cell, metal gear solid, all those games packed in one console sell the console, Nintendo first should only release a handheld and they should release higher quality games for them and they would sell a lot

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Well, that goes without saying.

Is it capable of rendering in 4K? (Don't worry there's a point to this)

 

[guisadop]

Well, it seems lightning DOES strike the same place twice...

 

[Prans]

Nintendo going yolo

 

[Flame]

D is for Donkey Kong
O is for Omega ruby
O is for Oshawott
M is for Mario

 

[Supster131]

*sighs*
No matter. I'm not interested in the PS4 Neo, and Phil Spencer is just as bad when asked about Project Scorpio. Since Scorpio seems to be the Xbox 1.5, I'm not interested in it (as I already own an Xbox One).

I'm telling ya man, all 3 companies are fucking up. Mid-gen upgrade? Nintendo not being patient?

I'm still going to buy an NX for exclusives and (hopefully) hacks. I think Nintendo completely lost 3rd party support. Nintendo will forever make secondary consoles now.

 

[codezer0]

Is it capable of rendering in 4K? (Don't worry there's a point to this)

Very much so. If you'd seen my posts on the PC threads here.

 

[guisadop]

Also, what's stopping them from doing both a powerful console AND good games? I mean, I'd DEFINITELY buy a Wii U if I could play all games of the generation in it, too. Since I can't, oh well... Nintendo games aren't that attractive to me anymore to justify buying a Wii U just to play them (no console's exclusive games are, honestly).

 

[catlover007]

this doesn't have to mean that NX will be underpowered, look how this new Xbox Thing gets promoted: "Hey this thing is super powerful, much more powerful than PS4 Neo. Thats the reason why this console is the best console off all times(except for the next Xboxes which are better)".
I think what he meant is that they want to present the NX with the games which come for it.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Very much so. If you'd seen my posts on the PC threads here.

Cool. How much did it cost?

 

[sarkwalvein]

Don't worry, the NX will be based on a double GTX1080 SLI setup, but they also decided to use a third GTX1080 as the main CPU because NVidia gave them a discount, so it will be somewhat difficult to develop for. But the power is there.

Source: Reggie Fils-Aimé is my nephew.

 

[codezer0]

Cool. How much did it cost?

Quite a bit. In part due to factory overclocked 980ti.

But AMD is already making the CPUs and GPUs for all three console makers, and they're already preaching about how awesome their new Polaris and Vega GPUs are, combined with Zen based CPUs that they're promising the moon for. All at considerably less.

 

[Shining Greninja]

Why can't nintendo get it through their heads! If you want good content, then have BETTER SPECS

 

[Rizzorules]

We need to accept the fact his body has never been ready

 

[Supster131]

Don't worry, the NX will be based on a double GTX1080 SLI setup, but they also decided to use a third GTX1080 as the main CPU because NVidia gave them a discount, so it will be somewhat difficult to develop for. But the power is there.

Source: Reggie Fils-Aimé is my nephew.

Aka PS3

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Quite a bit. In part due to factory overclocked 980ti.

But AMD is already making the CPUs and GPUs for all three console makers, and they're already preaching about how awesome their new Polaris and Vega GPUs are, combined with Zen based CPUs that they're promising the moon for. All at considerably less.

I understand. I don't think that this next generation of consoles is ready for 4k gaming at <$400 yet (Nintendo likes to stick to this price point because, let's face it, a cheap console with good games is a pretty insta-buy, at least for people like me). I could, on the other hand, see a console that will readily handle 1080p 60FPS and a MASSIVE amount of polygons coming in the next generation

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Why can't nintendo get it through their heads! If you want good content, then have BETTER SPECS

That's what I think he's saying, if you read my comment on the first page