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

 

[Temarile]

I really don't want another Wii U. I want something NEW. But for now, nintendo has been very very quiet about the NX..

 

[Deleted User]

Says the guy who created an awesome 3D homebrew game for the Wii U using Unity, some scissors and a paperclip

Even that never had enough power to run my game at a decent frame-rate, to be honest!
I just hope, deep down in the most joyful part of my heart, that Unity for NX will be a lot better than Unity for Wii U!
And for that to happen (which I somehow doubt...) I would appreciate it if Nintendo at least gives the NX hardware the moderate boost of speed and reliability that it deserves!

 

[Silverthorn]

First party content can only carry you so far, as the Wii U proved. All Nintendo has to do is to make a console on par with the current competitors, so that third party companies can release games across the big 3 platforms easily. From there on out, Nintendo just has to focus on fixing it's online functions/friend system/etc and they would be golden. Ridiculous.

Exactly. Of course it's always about the games, but many game developers will not want to make games for a console that might restrict their ability to create due to lower specs.
So lower specs will lock out some devs from developing for the console when they might have done so otherwise.

 

[keven3477]

I am curious, in this generation is xbox stronger than ps4?

 

[jimmyleen]

Alright enough is enough we need to have some one remove Nintendo from the public eye...for good. If all this company cares about is the game content and the user than they need to go out of business yesterday.

Edite: Microsoft and Sony care about profit, hardware, users, and game content among other things.

 

[Rizzorules]

New super mario bros nx, mario party 11 and mario kart 9 confirmed

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Although, before we go comparing this to the Wii U, let's consider this:

The NX will have what the Wii U never did. Both first party and quality third party launch titles

 

[TecXero]

Good specs doesn't mean it'll be friendly for third party developers. There's plenty of articles out there with information from third party devs that point out there's plenty of other problems that make it hard to develop for Nintendo consoles. They need to make it easy to develop for and have good support for third party devs. It shouldn't take them a week to respond to a dev's question or give out incomplete development tools.

As for a consumer like me who primarily plays on PC, I don't really care about the specs as no console will compare to my PC. If they want my attention, then they need to put out plenty of games I want to play and make the system so cheap I wouldn't mind throwing in that much money to play them. As long as the game plays well and smoothly with a decent look, then I'll be happy. Bayonetta 2 is still one of my favorite recent games.

EDIT: Though, I'd be even happier if they just developed their games for PC as well.

 

[PedroPVJ]

What Reggie is trying to say is that they are ****ing it up again

Impossible. Nothing could possibly be that much U.

But it could have further improvements to overall system stability

Games are all that matters.

Yep! That's why I want top 3rd party games in my Nintendo game console

 

[jimmyleen]

I am curious, in this generation is xbox stronger than ps4?

As of E3 yes.

 

[Reploid]

wiiu taught them nothing.

 

[Olmectron]

Yep! That's why I want top 3rd party games in my Nintendo game console

Didn't you read my second sentence in my post? I was being sarcastic.

 

[PedroPVJ]

Didn't you read my second sentence in my post? I was being sarcastic.

I'm sorry, my friend. I've indeed manipulated what you said in order to give more emphasis to our point

 

[jimmyleen]

Good specs doesn't mean it'll be friendly for third party developers. There's plenty of articles out there with information from third party devs that point out there's plenty of other problems that make it hard to develop for Nintendo consoles. They need to make it easy to develop for and have good support for third party devs. It shouldn't take them a week to respond to a dev's question or give out incomplete development tools.

And I have read some of of those article, which makes me think if Nintendo does not change from the inside or at all than they need to "get the fuck off the road" so to speak.

 

[keven3477]

As of E3 yes.

I was talking about the current consoles


And where has it been confirmed Nintendo wont compete with the other consoles in terms with power.
reggie only stated that performance is not first priority, they could probably surprise us and might have the system almost as powerful as the other systems.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

we’re focused on bringing our best entertainment to the Wii U

Nintendo, please stop kidding yourselves with that B.S.

 

[trigao]

having a good 3d mario game, mario kart and a good zelda game.... its more than enough for me.....

 

[jimmyleen]

I was talking about the current consoles


And where has it been confirmed Nintendo wont compete with the other consoles in terms with power.
reggie only stated that performance is not first priority, they could probably surprise us and might have the system almost as powerful as the other systems.

You are correct about the NX, it could very well be a surprise for everyone.

 

[zoogie]

Looking forward to my mini-Cortex ARM box with gimmick controller.
Bring on the first party games!!

 

[Olmectron]

I'm sorry, my friend. I've indeed manipulated what you said in order to give more emphasis to our point

Alright, I think I didn't really understand your sentence, sorry about that.

Anyway, I wish Nintendo was like Sony and Microsoft when it comes to marketing. "The Xbox One will be as powerful as high-end PCs", when obviously that statement is and will be false. But if Nintendo said that, even when the actual console is under-powered, it would sell a lot better.