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WSJ: Nintendo Begins Distributing Software Kit for NX (Console + Handheld units)
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Yep! I've said this all along. Keeping the price where it is isn't helping their current situation but it seems like they're already on to the next thing no matter what the sales outcome.
Exactly my thoughts. They can go with with the cheapest CPU and GPU and it can still be better. The hardware MS and Sony chose to use shouldn't be hard to surpass.
That depends on how well ARM can emulate PowerPC. ARM is literally the only architecture that can work efficiently on both console & handheld (x86 is getting there, but it's not that handheld-friendly, yet).
Console in the west, handheld in Japan.
Then the other one launches March 2017.
#bookit
-Pyromaniac-
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What people think/hope nintendo is doing = hybrid console/handheld shared library different specs etc...
What Nintendo will actually do = home console + tablet and possibly other secondary devices to play mobile games and act as a secondary/complimentary system to enhance the home console experience.
What Nintendo will actually do = home console + tablet and possibly other secondary devices to play mobile games and act as a secondary/complimentary system to enhance the home console experience.
HUELEN10
Member
Wii u has 99 problems but the price ain't one.
TheSlySoul
Member
That is my biggest issue as well. Hopefully transferring your games will be easier with a unified account system.
So it like Sony Nintendo, just make NX play my Virtual Console games unlike PS4.
If this actually happens (2016 release), it'll probably be regional and not out in all countries. On top of that, they'll still be making 3DS games for another 2-3 years at a minimum. Think of it as an iPhone S version.
jufonuk
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Iwata will get the last laugh when the world falls in love with the NX, somehow somewhere we will hear him laughing .. And a faint whisper of "you now understand , there is no reason to say please.. Over to you "
And we will all play and laugh and live in joy for that is the magic of Nintendo .
That's cool. My main interest is the home console.
El Sabroso
Member
my desire as well, and I add to not use the wii brand again for the console name
BodiesWithoutOrgans
Member
You go Stella
It will likely be backward compatible with all Wii U games. It just makes sense.
uh, no. intel atom chips could easily match or exceed ARM offerings in a handheld, but nobody wants to be tied to intel because they're too expensive.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
The Wii U is at death's door at the three year mark. That's a poor lifespan.
A decent lifespan is when a console's successor arrives, but it keeps on going, and lives out a good 8-10 years before it's retired.
nah man im winston shakespeare in this situation
I would expect NX to be in the same basic hardware power class as Xbox One and PS4, just as Wii U was with Xbox 360 and PS3. However, its specs weren't clearly superior to them, so I expect similar outcome from NX's specs as well. Also, I don't expect NX to be future-proofed to support next-gen game engines, so its basically going to support what Xbox One and PS4 support now. I just wonder if they'll be able to sell it for as low as $250.
Not when Iwata specifically said that he wanted to make the console & handheld "like brothers". Plus this lines up with Nintendo uniting their console & handheld divisions. There's too much smoke for the shared platform thing for there not to be a fire. This just sealed the deal.
Or they could release Pokémon Z in the summer to get it out of the way of the NX Platform. But granted, the 3DS could survive until Spring 2017 in the West.
What about the NX Handheld?
Petrae
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It might not have been a problem before, but it sure is now. When a successor has its dev kits in the wild and is expected to retail channels within a year, maintaining a $300 price tag is a big problem. Very few will be buying one-- and that's a smaller number than the already tiny number who were buying WiiU before this development.
Theanine3D
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I'll buy whatever the handheld ends up being.
Their handhelds have yet to disappoint me.
Their handhelds have yet to disappoint me.
reelbigtink
Member
If they release a powerful console for $300-400 you'd better all buy one after they freaking listened to you.
The proverbial you.
The proverbial you.
TheSlySoul
Member
We know it is not a hybrid, but they are sharing the same library. Hence is why it is just called NX. I just hope the portable SKU has a dock if I want to play on my TV.
Guessing portable games will be maxed at 720p and console will be 1080p.
mentallyinept
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Well, they obviously will not, but they should. WiiU has shown that 1st party games have a very limited audience, and without a strong 3rd party lineup that console died a miserable death.
I somehow doubt that 2K, Activision, EA and others will be willingvto dillute their efforts and make a third version of heavy hitting AAA games just to sell a miniscule portion of what XOne/PS4 versions sell.
NX has disaster written all over it, Nintendo is just too stubborn and too proud to admit that they became obsolete years ago.
Mysterious
Banned
There is no way the handheld would come out in Holiday 2017 in Japan if it comes out Spring 2017 here.
It's going to be:
-Console-
NA: November 18, 2016
EU: Late November
JP: Early December
Dr. Zoidberg
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"Good games don't matter to me if the hardware isn't powerful" - No offense, but I really hate this attitude with a passion. It actually disgusts me. Not calling you out specifically, just using your post as an example. It's a perfectly okay to have this opinion, btw. I just don't share it.
boiled goose
good with gravy
It got support because of parity.
But it also lost some because of lack of parity with mini disks and lacking buttons.
Nintendo needs the minimal set of feature parity to get support. I hope they realize this now.
The NX Console will likely piggy-back off of the NX Handheld in terms of Nintendo's output since software droughts were one of the bigger problems with the Wii U. The whole shared platform thing will at least solve that.
NeonZ
Member
No. The last thing Nintendo needs is to be tied to the GC hardware again.
HUELEN10
Member
What do you mean join mid-gen? I thought a lot of people were saying this is a next-gen console, the first 9th gen one.
Straight Edge
Member
How many GameCubes is this duct taped together? 8?
I meant to type Holiday 2016 for Japan's NX Handheld. My mistake.
Mysterious
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You think this info would be have its global premiere in a Nintendo Direct??? And one soon at that?
Fachasaurus
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Make this thing a handheld and a console so I can play Pokemon on my TV and on the go. And make it as powerful as the PS4 and I'll pay 500 launch day!
OrbitalBeard
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For a console that was basically dead to most of the industry two months after launch? Four years is miraculous. Most other companies would have dropped a console like this after a year.
No one ever said Wii U had a healthy life lol, but all things considered, four years for Wii U is fine.
Blue Geezer
Member
They are just going to call it Wii Next and be done with it aren't they?
It won't be, Iwata explicitly ruled out the idea. What it will be is a separate console & a separate handheld that share most of the same games.
they really, really, really need to forget the wii u ever happened.
backward compatibility would make like 20 people happy. it's unnecessary, as we can see from the current market leader.
re-release the greatest hits from the wii u with a remastered line.
You have no idea how much people have spent on Amiibo. They could prove the damn thing at $400 and it would still sell like hotcakes, provided it has good enough launch titles.
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