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Analyst worries about Nintendo's NX no-show at E3, wonders if they'll go third party

by rawmeatcowboy
24 June 2016
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Coming from Mike Channel from Outside Xbox...

"Everyone loves Nintendo games, everyone buys Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo games, but if you don't have other games, then you're only going to be buying one game every year or two years maybe and that's put them on the back foot, so the fact that they're not here with a console, I'm concerned because it feels like they're slipping ever further behind.

So we've already seen Nintendo working with mobile developers now and they seem to be starting to loosen their grip on dedicated hardware, we saw the same thing happen with Sega and Sonic back in the 90s, seeing Sonic the Hedgehog on a Nintendo console would have been unheard of, but we've had Sonic games on the Wii. So, I don't know if they'll ever relinquish that grip, it's really tough to know because Mario is such a beloved character, Zelda is such a beloved property, the idea of those on other consoles is again just as strange to think of as the Sega situation."

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