Has anyone actually found the NSP/XCI somewhere?
I’ve found an update file but the base game doesn’t seem to be anywhere I have access to.
Has anyone actually found the NSP/XCI somewhere?
I’ve found an update file but the base game doesn’t seem to be anywhere I have access to.
A console being different is not a financial risk when you spend no money on developing it and no money on producing it.
There was no path to bankruptcy, or even meaningful financial loss, if the Wii failed.
The market they actually get isn’t the point. It’s that they never invest enough money for it to be possible for them to lose meaningful money if their gimmick doesn’t work. If Sony doesn’t sell PS5s, they’re diverse enough that it probably won’t bankrupt them, but it will hurt bad. Nintendo isn’t even willing to invest enough that not selling is a mild inconvenience. They just refuse to invest.
You’re spouting non-stop bullshit. The Wii didn’t have R&D costs? Get outta here!
Nintendo was on the cusp of going the way Sega went after the Gamecube and the WiiU. The financial successes of the Wii and Switch saved their asses.
Compared to any other non-Nintendo platform ever made? No, it didn’t. They used cheap junk tech, exactly like the Switch, and didn’t commit to any meaningful investment in number of units.
The fact that they use hardware not capable of playing modern games is why third parties have very limited involvement with them. It’s why they got ports of 15 year old games instead of most developers of new games even considering putting their games on there. And their bad hardware is a direct result of their unwillingness to invest like everyone else does. Even Valve, who has very limited hardware production, invested far more in the Steam Deck than Nintendo did on the switch.
so… what was so groundbreaking about developing the xbox one/series or ps4/5? How are those consoles any more R&D intensive than developing the Wiimote?
You already claimed so much bullshit which I debunked. Do you have any data about the rest of your allegations? like how Nintendo was supposedly fine after the WiiU?
The SteamDeck wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the Switch. The Valve VR headsets wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the Wii.
Performance is expensive. Building and validating a system around high end custom chips is expensive. They also will not make you units if you don’t make serious volume commitments.
Building a very basic system with cheap, bad, off the shelf components is not expensive.
Sorry, you have no idea about hardware development. Just because Hardware is cheap doesn’t mean that R&D is cheap.
Do you think that development hardware drives R&D costs? No, paying engineers does. Do you think that Sony or Microsoft develop their own chips? Again: nope: They use AMD Microarchitectures (Sony won’t make the mistake of the PS3 again).
You know what costs R&D? Developing controllers does. And guess who reinvents their controllers every generation! Not just hd rumble, like the dual sense: Video streaming, HD rumble, IR technology, etc.
And Nintendo tripled their R&D budget from 2003 to 2007 twice:
Source
Any more bullshit for me to debunk?