This is concerning on so many levels. I get that Nintendo has a lot of developer resources in the NX, but the fact that this console is coming out in March of 2017 and we haven't heard a thing about it yet, and won't get to see it at E3, is a huge red flag. Not just for me but from an investor standpoint. If I own a stake in Nintendo, I wouldn't be feeling very good right now.
Almost all of the value of a share of stock comes from the information that surrounds a company. It's earnings reports, press releases, and even their own competitors information are all factors in the valuation of Nintendo, and any company for that matter. So when I see a news story where we know more about the release date of this device than the device itself, it makes me extremely nervous about the state of Nintendo.
the Wii U is a flop, I'm not talking like a little mino gasping for air, I mean like a full grown Magikarp that only knows splash. The concept and power of the Wii U was flawed from the outset. Your big idea was to have a screen that only one person could use at a time? If your goal was building on the natural inclusion that Wii had with it's peripherals, then they failed massively. But that's not to say that they couldn't have used the game pad in unique ways to justify it. It just so happens they failed at that too. but that wasn't even the worst of it all, they couldn't convince developers to get behind the system.
When I think of when Nintendo had it's highest value, I think of the snes. Full disclosure I wasn't alive back when the system came out, but I do own one and have a modest collection of 12 or so games (usual suspects, got earthbound recently, it's pretty good, and funny too). That system had two things going for it, it had the ability to support 3rd parties and it had excellent first party support. Where was the 3rd party with the Wii U? It was there on day one, and in a remarkably poor way, and then it was gone. The comparatively poor power of the system and the uniqueness of the system made it a no go for 3rd party devs and indies as well, and for good reason, it was just too limiting. And that's why I'm concerned for this system.
Nintendo doesn't just need, "A Nintendo-like solution". It needs to knock it out of the park. If the scuttlebutt is true, and the NX is really an all-in-one solution, it needs to at least be 95% of what the Playstation NEO and whatever Microsoft is preparing to announce. If all the NX is offering is the ability to put out a Wii U quality of performance, I would tell everyone I know with Nintendo stock to invest elsewhere. If others and myself can't play the 3rd party games like COD, Assassin's Creed, and Fallout on this new system, it will be doomed to suffer the fate of it's parent.
The NX needs to be translate 100% in terms of usability to the competition. the time for unique controls is over. It needs to have buttons, triggers, shoulder bumbers, and no gyroscopics. I should be able to pick up an NX and play any given game on any other system and still get the smae experience. Anything less than that and the system will be relegated to only hard-core Nintendo fans. And I know this might hurt some people, but that user base may not be able to support Nintendo in the way that they need it too. If Nintendo want to right the ship, they need to give Joe Gamer an excellent reason to care about the NX. And based on the absolute dirth of knowledge we have about the system, they seem to be even less enthused about their prospects for this thing than I do.
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