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I think Nintendo has a big hill to climb as far as their next iteration of gaming systems. With the wild success of the Switch they have to be thinking when and what they can possibly do to keep the gravy train flowing. Nintendo has had a history of having a major successful console followed by a underperforming console ever since the Super Nintendo.
The challenges I think Nintendo will face -
It’ll be very interesting to see what happens in the new couple of years.
The challenges I think Nintendo will face -
- How to keep 3rd party publishers interested in releasing games on their consoles. The last console nintendo had that was on par graphically with the others was the GameCube. Since then it seems a lot of 3rd party support has vanished. They either get their own tailor made, smaller games like MHR or Triangle Strategy from square and capcom or cloud ports. There next system being a Hybrid will have similar challenges, it most likely won’t be on the level of even a Series S, most likely a pro model console from last gen. So, by next year will 3rd party want to scale down, still?
- Does Nintendo keep their hybrid console set up working for them now? Realistically Nintendos primary market has always been handhelds. The switch is pretty much their new handheld, that can be played on a tv. It’s what they’ve always dominated in. It just makes me wonder if this will be what the stick to from this point on, how much longer do purely physical gaming devices have left? Maybe not next gen or the gen after but I wonder if Nintendo if thinking about a future where software is king and the physical device becomes a novelty?
- Re-releases and Backwards compatibility - This is the big one for me. How does Nintendo honor digital libraries going forward? It seems almost insane to think they could move to next gen hardware while not addressing backwards compatibly to the Switch. That creates two separate Problems. Nintendos over-reliance on ports to fill release gaps (I think they have released at least two ports every year since the Switch launched) and running out of games to remaster. Now with nintendo online they are offering their back catalogue though the service. It’s almost like they’ve painted themselves into a corner. Now they are cutting off their ability to port anything from nintendo to n64, they’ve already done all of Wii-U, which i guess leaves GameCube and Wii. Will Nintendo choose to re-master those two generations of games moving forward or will they use their libraries as a way to make nintendo online more attractive over time?
It’ll be very interesting to see what happens in the new couple of years.