Developers are Excited for the NX — Should You Be Too?

It’s a secret to no one that Nintendo currently has a pretty humble position in the home console industry. While Xbox and PlayStation continue to charge on with a variety of different games from dozens of developers, Nintendo fans are primarily living off of indie games in-between the not so often first-party releases.

It’s been quite some time since Nintendo last had truly decent third-party support. This has led many gamers to believe that the upcoming NX most likely won’t be in too different of a situation. Despite the fact that we know next to nothing about the system, there does seem to be a noticeably bright light on the horizon-many big developers have already stepped forward with positive remarks about it. How excited should you be about that?

[iplay1up2]

I am curious for sure, it would seem the NX will have more under its hood than PS4, I have to wonder about how it will compare to PS4.5, which I can say I doubt I will pick up. Scorpio of coarse will be a beast, but hell you might as well just build a high end PC you can upgrade.

NX, day one with Zelda, and Luigi's Mansion. My dream launch game would be Eternal Darkness.

[herbs]

I think its likely the NX will have a better CPU then either of the competitors and prob a 3-4 teraflop GPU.

[Maybay]

I just hope this time around, NX owners support the quality third party titles.

[EcoSos3]

What quality? Do you mean half baked games with no dlc what so ever because that I will not support it.

[Segata]

As long as they are not half assed ports either missing the DLC.

[jcnba28]

Nintendo fans DID support GOOD third party games, not rushed ports that were missing content.

[Loadedklip]

I'm buying it for the same reason I buy other Nintendo consoles ... I love Nintendo published games and am willing to buy a system JUST for their games.

I don't expect anything else but would love to see Nintendo have a console with third party support at the level of the competition for the first time since the SNES.

But if not ... it's fine. I have a PS4 and PC personally.

[herbs]

I'm of the same mind set as you. If Nintendo can be profitable with limited support, being a niche secondary console is fine with me. It would be cool to see Nintendo as #1 though to haha.

[exkalibur97]

i would agree with you since i love nintendo games as well, but if they just continue to rehash the same tired ips over and over with little to no gameplay changes i wont be buying them

[CaptainObvious878]

I would like to see them get out of the dam hardware scene, and release their games on PS4 and xbone.

I'd love to play some of their games, but I'm not spending money on a console for a handful of games.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

"Most of my friends who are Nintendo fans like me are also multiconsole owners because Nintendo doesn't get the third party games we want which does include Call of Duty. "

*Looks at sales of CoD on Wii and Wii U*
*Looks to you and your friends and raises one eyebrow quizzically*

"Many Sony and Microsoft fans are fans of Nintendo. They just don't want to fork over 300 dollars for an extra system that plays just ONE publisher's games."

...
Funny thought, but have you ever stopped to consider just how often players use the term "AAA third party games" with the same blanket tone they'd use when talking about the games from a single publisher?
Considering how similar in feel many of them are, I can't blame them.XD
At this point I think it's fair to say that they're buying just one system for "AAA third party" the same way they claim Nintendo owners only buy a system for "Nintendo games."

I feel it's also fair to say, taking the former into consideration, that many of those that ONLY own a Sony or Microsoft console and not a Nintendo console, that claim to still love Nintendo games, despite having entirely abandoned the consoles that host them, are exaggerating, or aren't honestly examining their feelings for the games.
It's likely nostalgia remnants, at best.
Those who actually love games from a set publisher, go where those games are.
Real Nintendo fans aren't sitting on the internet port begging, IMO.

[Aenea]

They probably know more about what it's capable of than we do now. I'm curious to see what it will be like!

[exkalibur97]

dont be fooled bro, same pr articles that preceded the wii u and look how that turned out

[Teflon02]

WiiU had articles exactly the same lol. Trust me, it means absolutely nothing

[superchiller]

I read the article, but there are almost no facts to support the author's arguments. It really just seems like optimistic fanboy fantasies rather than a solid essay on the potential of the NX.

The same kinds of positive comments from developers preceded the release of the Wii U, and look how that turned out.

[AKR]

I began the article talking about how developers spoke positively about the Wii U, and what happened shortly afterwards.

The whole basis of this piece was to talk about how, given Nintendo's current situation, big developers are still quite positive about the NX. Even though the system hasn't been released yet and there's almost no momentum behind it, these studios are interested in it.

[superchiller]

Yes, you did mention that at the beginning of your article. But you didn't acknowledge that the NX could follow the exact same pattern, and you gave no reasons why it might succeed vs. the Wii U. There is nothing different from the pre-Wii U hype and the pre-NX hype. Developers are always going to put a positive spin on their comments if they hope to develop games and make profits from a new piece of gaming hardware; it's all really just PR hype, nothing more.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Ignore Shiller, dude.
He fails to acknlwledge the fact that Nintendo coming into a new gen off of one of their least popular systems ever, is a very huge motivation factor for Nintendo.
He thinks it could follow the same pattern, but the fact is, it can't, and won't, because each of Nintendo's consoles have something unique to them beyond just raw specs, and because Nintendo literally cannot afford to do so, reputation-wise.

[rjason12]

Man, more than half of all your comments are always on Nintendo articles. I'm starting to think you secretly love them or something.

[jcnba28]

Still delusional as ever I see? LOL!

[kaiserxblue]

That's good, hopefully this could be a good sign of NX and thrid party games.

[MasterCornholio]

Hopefully Nintendo learned a lot from the Wii U.

" just to beef up the number of worthwhile launch titles"

And hopefully they get much needed 3rd party support. If there's something that Wii U has taught us is that Nintendo games are not enough to sell the system. Hopefully Nintendo makes a system that's worth the time of 3rd party developers.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Hard to believe they haven't, considering the fact that they've held projects back just to beef up the number of worthwhile launch titles.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

ROFL!
The Wii U taught us no such thing. The launch had very few system-selling first party titles, so saying that the Wii U taught us Nintendo games can't sell Nintendo systems, is pure BS.

No, what the Wii U taught us, is that bad multiplat ports cannot move a Nintendo system, and that Nintendo needs to try harder to supply many high profile first party games year one on the NX, than they did year one on the Wii U.

@Ed
@Wonder- "so saying that the Wii U taught us Nintendo games can't sell Nintendo systems, is pure BS"

".....

Wii U sold 12 million. "

Wii U also had one of the weakest first party launch line-ups of any Nintendo system, not to mention the #1 most horrible array of late content-deficient last-gen ports that ANY console has EVER had for its launch, which killed the momentum of the system so badly that even a better library later on could not pick it back up.
All significant factors that you CONTINUE TO IGNORE OR DOWNPLAY when agruing whether or not Nintendo's games can be system sellers, right alongside your insistence that the same people on other consoles, who think Nintendo's games aren't system sellers, would somehow buy Nintendo's games over system-selling titles like Witcher 3.
Which, again, is bullshit that only a Nintendo hater could dream up.

"Did 3DS not have many high profile games? Mario RPG, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, 2D Mario Game, Zelda game etc, yet it didn't move DS NUMBERS!"

By your logic, Sony is failing even worse, because they never matched "PS2 NUMBERS!" with the PS3, let alone the PS4, and the PS4 actually even has the benefit of being the casual's/children's console-of-choice this gen right alongside core gamers, a benefit which neither the PS4 not Wii could claim, much less the DS.

Take your business-ignorant anti-Nintendo fanboy bullshit elsewhere. Someone who hates Nintendo as much as you obviously do will NEVER know what's best for them.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@Wonder- "so saying that the Wii U taught us Nintendo games can't sell Nintendo systems, is pure BS"

.....

Wii U sold 12 million.

Maybe you need to come to terms with that. Wii U had fine first party games, I personally feel the did a good job on Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Xenoblade, Splatoon, Pikmin 3 and many more.

The issue is.....this isn't 20 years ago, they've been on the decline for a very, very long time and Wii U showed that without that casual gimmick crowd that their core fan base is much smaller then even Gamecube's. ie they kept shrinking since the entrance of the PS.

Trying "harder" with high profile first party games isn't going to do jack for them. Did 3DS not have many high profile games? Mario RPG, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, 2D Mario Game, Zelda game etc, yet it didn't move DS NUMBERS!

Wii U and 3DS are merely showing that they gimmick factor has worn off and those gamers moved on else where if they are even still gaming.

What you have with the 3DS and Wii U IS the real core number of HARDCORE Nintendo fans.

[BattleAxe]

"Developers are Excited for the NX — Should You Be Too?"

They are?

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

Yes KOEI Tecmo onfirmed they are developing for it a day after NX March release was announced.

Level-5 want to bring Yo-Kai Watch to the NX

Spike Chunsoft and Capcom said they will support it once they get on board

Indie devs has already been confirming projects

Square Enix were the first one to mention games for it. FFXIV can happen if Nintendi get in touch with them and DQXI is planned to release around the NX launch. And why they havent shown anything yet but will at TGS sort of prove it.
All these devs supports the 3DS which has been a success for third party games.

[Shineon]

I want to be but im just not.hope its stroger than the new playstation tho

[Dunban67]

i m not convinced many if any western devs actually know what the NX is- or have seen it- they may have or be privy to part of the NX but few comments from devs have (w the exception of Ubisoft) sounded like they had an idea what the NX is
EA has said we will "wait and see"
i don t see any of the dev comments so far being different than the prelude to the wii u- doesn t mean the NX will be good or bad but i would not read anything into what devs have said to date- the only comments Nintendo have made re the NX point to them targeting the Family/youth/female market doesn t mean they will not have something for the rest of the market (like Zelda) but they have stated who their target market is or at least part of it

[Dunban67]

which part are the disagrees disagreeing?
the comment below in quotes is fact - the rest of my post is opinion/observation (other than the EA part)
"the only comments Nintendo have made re the NX point to them targeting the Family/youth/female market..."

[Tito08]

The so called developers always show excitement and then complain all of a sudden.

[exkalibur97]

same pr speak bs like when the wii u launched, im not excited i was one of the idiots who bought a wii u and i have under 10 games on the thing. unless the nx is powerfull and has 3rd party support im no getting tricked again. fool me once nintendo,

[3-4-5]

* Of course I'm excited...It is a new console...and a new Nintendo console...always worth getting excited for.

[jojo319]

Sort of off topic. I own all three systems, and one thing I've noticed is Nintendo games rarely if ever go on sale. And when they do it's like five bucks. For that matter they don't even get price drops for sometimes years. I find myself skipping a lot of Nintendo games just because they're so expensive. With PS4 and Xbox I can usually wait a couple of months and save 30 bucks. But with Nintendo it just never happens. Even 3DS games.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

Get on MyNintendo. You get discounts.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

Sory but my 3SS has dozen of third parties games and over 30 I have yet to get. My library consist most of third party on 3DS and I play them more aside from Fire Emblem and Pokemon of course.

[DivineAssault]

Cant say i trust em.. Wii U was supposed to have support too but died off really quick.. Ill get it for 1st party games but im not holding my breath for other companies to jump on board