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Eurogamer: NX = portable w/ carts, detachable controllers, Tegra, TV Out, no BC, Sept
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Glad you reposted this, Vena. I missed it the first time. Thank you.
RandomExpletive
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This thread is nuts. I hope we're finally getting real rumors, though we're so close to a reveal I wouldn't even mind 
I am very excited by the prospect of this rumor. This could be a really great console. Some of the hate is hilarious, but alas, wouldn't be a Nintendo thread without it
I am very excited by the prospect of this rumor. This could be a really great console. Some of the hate is hilarious, but alas, wouldn't be a Nintendo thread without it
Graphics Horse
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Another UMD fan?
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Splatoon 2 in bed
Yeah that's what a lot of people here are thinking.
DeepEnigma
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Made by Sega. 128X baby!
The NX is aimed at the same people who will be buying the upcoming NES reboot. Price it low enough to be an impulse purchase. Size it small enough to fit in any home. Make the controller as unintimidating as possible. Have it play games and nothing else. There is a market for such a device; there isn't one for another full fledged $400 console (as evidenced by the failure of the Xbox One and Wii U).
TreasureHunterG
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If this is true, then Nintendo is pretty much abandoning the home console market. I really doubt third-parties will support this idea at all.
Try thinking of it as just a really powerful, adaptable handheld. I'm willing to bet
(not a ban bet though, lol)
Yeah, I was thinking about this too, and I think the controllers will have motion sensors.
Port blaming again? It's still a mobile cpu/gpu. It's limited by it's power throughput. It has to run on batteries without killing it in minutes. You are not going to output super graphics on a battery unless you want like an hour of battery life.
Chezzymann
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Game design wise, Nintendo was already moving in a more console like direction on 3DS with stuff like Luigi's mansion 2, 3D land, and smash 4. I wouldn't be surprised if they continue that trend even more with NX.
Latest Just Dance games allow people to use their cellphones as controller.
So mandatory controllers are no longer recquired.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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We're basing it off this:
The problem is this isn't cost efficient; they'd have to include two GPUs instead of one, when only one will possibly be used half the time.
Perhaps you can buy powered-up docks tho.
Mihos
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How many console games are on those phones? This isn't strictly a portable device, unless you expect the NX to have a hard drive in it. Even if you do, ask the digital only crowd how that 500mb hard drive in their console is holding up to their digital library. Even my WiiU has a USB drive plugged in right now, I don't buy hardly anything digital.
Jonneh3003
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Makes more sense than discs in 2016, we have to install data due to how slow discs are, the same isn't true for cartridges.
So it's a handheld with a TV-out? That's their only hook?
It seems like they are trying to salvage their diminishing handheld market by tethering their next system to the console market.
"We know that everyone would rather just play games on their phone, but our new handheld let's you play at home on your TV too!"
It seems like they are trying to salvage their diminishing handheld market by tethering their next system to the console market.
"We know that everyone would rather just play games on their phone, but our new handheld let's you play at home on your TV too!"
Tom Nook Sawyer
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You know this is a handheld right? Excepting the PSP, every one has used carts/cards
Hatty
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Spinning Disks in 2016
One would hope that the detachable controller parts have gyros in them.
I'm not intrigued by what (if anything) the hardware will do when docked. I think Nintendo knows 1080p is the de facto TV resolution right now and need to output at that.
I wonder if part of the tech design NVidia did made sure this thing could "transform" into higher power modes when docked. Power consumption is not a factor in docked mode, but cooling definitely is.
There's also the mindset of: would they even waste that R&D budget to make a system that can do this?
I wonder if part of the tech design NVidia did made sure this thing could "transform" into higher power modes when docked. Power consumption is not a factor in docked mode, but cooling definitely is.
There's also the mindset of: would they even waste that R&D budget to make a system that can do this?
DigitalScrap
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I'm personally super excited about the possibilities of this. I play my N3DS far more than my consoles, so the thought of a Nintendo portable that has some decent power that can also be connected to the TV when I want to sounds great to me.
dcx4610
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I think it will flop. Kids end people like their phones and tablets these days. No one is going to want to carry around another device with them. Just like most people don't carry around iPods along with their iPhone, I can't see people with a NX in their pocket.
It sounds like it will barely be as powerful as the Wii U. If that's the case, it will suffer the same fate. People don't want weak hardware. Unless the NX has a surprise, I don't think just being Nintendo is enough. It will sell on par with the Wii U.
It sounds like it will barely be as powerful as the Wii U. If that's the case, it will suffer the same fate. People don't want weak hardware. Unless the NX has a surprise, I don't think just being Nintendo is enough. It will sell on par with the Wii U.
Graphics Horse
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There's nothing stopping them releasing a home system at a later date with full compatibility, but I just don't see a pressing need for it to be next year.
....And? Faster load times and decent storage. What's the problem? Cost used to be, but it honestly isn't that bad and I doubt Nintendo would pass it onto the consumer anyway.
SD cards can go up to like 2TB now. No optical drive reduces cost and risk of mechanical failure. And read speeds can be faster from a card. Reduced need to install stuff to an HDD, as well. It's a net gain on every front except the cost of the card itself, but even that could be mitigated by buying in bulk.
I can't see this thing taking off vs. the Wii U. It's still underpowered, and while we have yet to see the controllers, I can't see them having the ergonomics of the dual shock or xbox controllers. This is very much a handheld games machine, and phones and tablets have already crushed that market.
I would almost have preferred a 3DS2 with excellent screens and moar power, and just forget the living room.
I would almost have preferred a 3DS2 with excellent screens and moar power, and just forget the living room.
Seeing as this thing has to be portable, doing discs would be pretty dumb (see the PSP). Plus cartridge storage capacities have caught up with discs & have faster read speeds compared to discs, so there definitely are benefits.
Huge Succeeded
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Thoughtless shitposts about cartridges on page 91 lol
Shin Megami Tensei 5, empowered thanks to Persona 5 engine.
Still, it won't have Persona 5.
DecoReturns
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Will this mean there will be more limited edition consoles? I like the variety that the 3DS has. My Pokemon 20th Anniversary is pretty sweet, even tho it's just plate covers.
randomengine
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If NX is indeed what is being shown here, then what the hell is MH?
I really doubt NX will have an open environment to connect to other forms of media, like smartphones
elshoelace
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But now they will be the same thing and it is more powerful than the Wii U, I don't see the problem.
Barely as powerful. How do you read exactly?
Stormhammer
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hey guys i said a thing and this unofficial info says the thing i said is true. even though its a rumor i fucking called it, i am a gaming nostradamus
and some people calling out others and telling people to eat crow, what crow is there to eat from unofficial info
if info turns to be true, i wont get it based on no bc. would break my heartpiece
nintendo just went down the wrong pipe.
and some people calling out others and telling people to eat crow, what crow is there to eat from unofficial info
if info turns to be true, i wont get it based on no bc. would break my heartpiece
nintendo just went down the wrong pipe.
It needs to make stuff 1080p if they're doing that.
Green Mamba
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Zelda's a port. When we start seeing new games designed from the ground up for NX will be the actual test if console styled Nintendo can remain.
WhateverItTakes
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No backwards compatibility is a bummer. Unavoidable with the new cart setup I suppose but still. I was hoping to jump onto the new generation and still play all the WiiU games I missed. Gonna be a lotta up ports though, right?
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Ewwww.
ShockingAlberto
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Nah. I think Kid Icarus is a better game than most of Nintendo's output last gen. I think Splatoon could have also been a handheld game. I think Smash was a direct calling out of how they wanted to merge the two.
3D Land and 3D World are not that different. The handheld ACs are better experiences than the console ones. They deliberately ported Wii games to the 3DS like Donkey Kong and Xenoblade, the latter being one of their biggest "deeper and fulfilling experiences" in console development.
I think you're jerking your knee pretty hard here.
The console and portable experience is fusing together now though
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