Nintendo NX STREAMING, SUBSCRIPTION-Based? - The Know

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If they release the console near the end of the 2016 fiscal year, they may be thinking it will take a few months to build up a lot of sales. The point will then be that the next fiscal year will start off really well. By the time that the 2017 fiscal year starts, the NX sales will be ramping up and be more appealing to the mainstream audiences. They may want the majority of this fiscal year to be the WiiU and 3DS sales (hardware/games). If the whole of their 2017 fiscal year is good, then they can get stockholder's support going into the 2018 fiscal year.

The problem with streaming services for games:

1) You need high bandwidth in the household, anybody trying to do anything else on the connection could cause lag which would end in you getting killed in game.

2) Even if you have a uber high bandwidth connection, you may not be close enough to the servers running your game. Internet speed does NOT compensate for lag caused by distance, it affects how much data you can push or pull at one time. For example: If the server was in Denver, but you live in Mississippi, you will have more lag than people with slower connections than you living in Kansas.

3) The number of people that satisfy 1 & 2 just in the US are surprisingly low. Unlike Japan and Korea, the allot of people in the US are spread apart and ISPs can't get out there and offer conditions that satisfy 1 & 2.

4a) With ISPs like Comcast trying to put a data cap on your connection, streaming because less feasible without destroying your wallet. Especially if you want your content in HD or worst, 4K. Pictures and Videos consuming more data than audio, and higher resolution increases the data taken exponentially.

4b) ISP data caps also make it so you are paying for a single service practically 2-3 times over. 1 for the initial connection, 2) for the service itself (e.g. Netflix, etc). These two we are used to doing anyway. The problem is the third one where you are charged a fee for EITHER going over your data cap, or trying to add to the initial cap that comes with the terms from the initial connection.

I think if we can get ISPs to stop trying to set data caps and start expanding decent connections to more remote regions and/or setup more server hubs to serve you content, we would be fine.

I would be shocked if this was the case. The later release makes sense when you consider the fact that the NX's library would have consisted of pretty much all ports from the WiiU had it released in the fall vs having at least few new games including the new LOZ game. While missing the Christmas season does suck, I am unsure how bring out a streaming service in March is better than a console.

Definitely not.

assmiibos?

I totally thought I got a slack chat at the end of this video

3 things,

1. I don't think that they will have a subscription service because they can make people buy the same games over and over. A subscription service would have I lower revenue. I think. Rather than $10-$20 per month, people can buy one or two $15 game a month (re-releases of old titles, including GameCube ones) or even more depending on how they release those games.

2. They touched a bit on that, but I'm going to say it anyway. They might be looking to have a good 2017 fiscal year in revenue while leaving the 2016 one in the dust. Dead. Also, basically what @TheRTV said below.

3. And Lawrence, about reading a prompter or script. It works well on TV because the camera is further away and the prompter is next to it. And because it's far, it looks like people look at the camera when they talk. Maybe change the setup to be further away and it won't look like you're looking down or reading (although it's obvious that you need to read and I don't care as much about the visuals of it).

Calling it now. Nintendo NX is smartphone with a streaming service for games with Bluetooth connectivity and an emphasis on augmented reality, and this is me being optimistic but it should include the 3DS 3d capabilities.