#秋日生活打卡季#
1. Nintendo's change and unchanged
Eurogamer recently broke the news that Nintendo showed off its new console NX2 (codename) behind closed doors at the Cologne Game Show, inviting important partners to participate.
There are two demos on display, the first is "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", which is said to have greatly improved its image quality and frame rate.
This project is mainly to demonstrate its compatibility and improvement of NS games, which is expected to be backward compatible in digital form.
The second is the Unreal 5 "Matrix" demo, which caused a sensation some time ago, which demonstrated the use of NVIDIA Dlss and ray tracing technology, which is said to reach the level of PS5 and XSX.
DLSS is mainly to increase the frame rate, and it is expected that NX2 may support 4K/60hz quality, but there is still a difference between the demo and the actual game, and in complex environments, it is thankful that it can reach 4K/30hz.
According to previous news, NX2 will use NVIDIA Tegra T239 chip, which has a computing power of up to 4Tflops, which is far from the PS5's 10.28T and XSX's 12T.
IT IS SIMILAR TO THE 4.2T COMPUTING POWER OF THE PS4 PRO, SO IT IS STILL CAPABLE OF OUTPUTTING 4K/30hz.
According to VGC, Nintendo NX2 will still use dual-mode form, supporting TV and portable play forms.
In portable mode, we still hope to achieve 1080P/60Hz picture quality, which is also a high standard specification of competing handhelds, if it can be achieved, at least it will not be at a competitive disadvantage.
If Nintendo still stubbornly chooses 720P resolution due to cost, I am afraid that some players will be disappointed.
Switch single-handedly spelled out a game handheld market from the cracks between mobile phones and tablets, and Valve and ROG and Lenovo saw the sweetness and joined in.
NX2 needs to maintain the same performance as other handheld machines in order to gain player approval in terms of software and creativity.
2. Challenges and opportunities in the post-NS era
Since its founding in 1889, Nintendo has adhered to the business philosophy of "one strong is weak" and has always been very strong.
Yamauchi's shift from Hanaza to video games in the '70s was a great shift, and FC achieved unprecedented success, building a huge video game empire out of thin air.
Nintendo was not stubborn, and in the face of competition from Sony and Sega, it also invested heavily in the development of the most advanced hardware at that time, N64. Despite the unsatisfactory results, Nintendo developed the Wii, an epoch-making somatosensory game console, with its keen sense of smell, and cut into the game segment from all-age entertainment, allowing Nintendo to gain a firm foothold again.
It should be noted that the failure of Wiiu, which wanted to rely on the success of Wii to inherit the family business by compatibility and micro-innovation, failed miserably.
forced Nintendo to break its wrists, abandon the traditional handheld market, and design the Switch as a dual-use product, only to get a piece of the pie between the two giants.
So this is also the biggest hidden danger of NX2, people are already familiar with Nintendo's innovation, if you can't come up with eye-catching products, just rely on the NS stock market to continue the glory, is tantamount to a fool's dream, Wiiu is a lesson from the past.
It is rumored that Nintendo will enable VR technology on new consoles, combining NX2 and VR to create new growth points.
Nintendo has a soft spot for VR, from 1995's VB to Labo VR on NS.
The key is that now that the VR heat has passed, the equipment is too cumbersome, does not meet the needs of players for convenient and fast play, and competes with other VR products, which is not ecological advantage.
Moreover, the biggest demand for VR is not games, but movies, and Nintendo should not directly provide video viewing functions, which will affect its own industrial layout.
For Nintendo, function is not the most important, as long as there is an average level on the market, plus Nintendo's boutique games, it will definitely be able to explode in word of mouth, don't be biased by the leather brother.
3. Where will the game company go?
This year's "Mario Movie" allowed Nintendo to see the appeal of game IP in cinemas, with a global box office of more than $1.3 billion, second only to Disney's "Frozen", and directly sitting as the runner-up at the box office of historical cartoons.
At the same time, people can't help but imagine what kind of grand situation would occur if Nintendo's IP entered the movie industry.
This is also the direction that Nintendo has been working for, Nintendo USA President Doug Bowser recently said in an interview with the Washington Post that Nintendo will transform into a game-based entertainment company, expanding its business to include movies, toys, amusement parks, etc., Nintendo President Furukawa Shuntaro has also expressed this willingness on many occasions.
In the current wave of giant acquisitions, it is too difficult for small and medium-sized companies to retain their independence.
Microsoft also threw an olive branch to Nintendo that year, but it was rejected. Imagine if Nintendo's next-generation console failed and the stock price plummeted, and Microsoft pulled out its checkbook and bid twice the market value to buy it, would it still have the ability to refuse in the current manager system?
Only change is constant, the external environment is changing, the internal structure is also changing, so Nintendo must also change.
No matter how it changes, Nintendo is still a game-based company, it does not have the multi-field revenue capabilities of Sony and Microsoft, and focusing on its own business is the reason why players like it.
To sum up, Nintendo's new console is likely to add new features, innovate in gameplay, or retain NS compatibility.
From the perspective of players, it is more hoped that Nintendo will launch a new game console, rather than a small facelift of NS, which will greatly reduce the attractiveness, just like PS5 is compatible with PS4, and two versions of the game have to be launched, players go to buy the PS4 version, and the development of PS5 will be hindered.
Capital is profit-seeking, and Nintendo's shareholders certainly want to bless such huge profits now. In the long run, resting on oneself will only harm yourself, and taking too big a step will lead to eggs.
How difficult it is to find a blue ocean market with mature technologies such as Wii and NS.
In any case, we will support a company that develops good games for the sake of players. But if you want to cut the feelings of leeks and fool fans by tinkering, you will eventually be abandoned by the market.
I hope Nintendo can grasp the degree between innovation and stock and make a new console that lives up to the expectations of players!
That's all for today, I hope you enjoy it.
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