Well, that's the thing. Nintendo games don't really need that much power. Their problem never was the lack of power of their consoles, it was the loss of people's interests on their consoles (at least their home consoles), and thus, smaller software sales. The NX will have to compete with both the PS4 and the PS5, and those consoles are going to be beasts. Even in the remote case of Microsoft abandoning consoles in favor of PC-mobile gaming, the NX will be squashed if it doesn't find an appropiate strategy to survive.

I think the Fusion might be the best route for that. If the handheld can handle WiiU power and the home console can handle PS4 power, maybe Nintendo could concentrate in a constant flux of 1st party software to attract hardware sales, and that would attract 3rd parties. With Sony losing interest on the Vita quickly, Nintendo would once again become the only one on the dedicated handheld market, and that could be a good thing, specially in Japan.

what a terrible rumor lol

Faker than Kim Kardashian's boobs.

There's no way in hell a new home console is going to launch at $149

New Nintendo console with AMD Fury Nano and new Skylake 6400T processor at $150 confirmed.

I kinda hope this is true, I personally really like the idea of a $150 Nintendo microconsole, slightly stronger than Wii U and shares a library with the handheld.

A low cost console wouldn't be the worst play for Nintendo.

Releasing a console that's just PS4/XB1 level in power or slightly better will flop the same way the Wii U has because it will be several years too late.

People are not paying another $300 so they can play the same games on PS4/X1 with a handful of Nintendo games too.

If they want to compete head-on they must make a 3 TFLOP console *minimum* I think. To see a real difference on screen will be difficult if the gap isn't large enough.

Which I don't think Nintendo has any interest in making a console that expensive and then making games for it which would cost a small fortune.

Whereas a low cost console ... they can use mobile parts and still actually get some good kick for their money. Like I said a chip like the GT7900 from PowerVR clocks in at an impressive 800 GFLOPS (this would be a nice sized upgrade over the Wii U), is cheap, and is based on mobile tech, so it would scale easily into a handheld as well, allowing Nintendo to share their games very easily on both platforms.

To be honest if Nintendo had a processor like that they could even just throw 2-3 in a box and it would match/exceed the XB1/PS4 for a higher spec console that likely has a power consumption rate lower or equal to the current Wii U. Mobile tech is advancing at an amazing rate. 

$149.99=death... period. For a console to launch at that price means it's probably going to be weaker than hell and thus, no third party games AGAIN.

This is not going to happen.

$149-$169 doesn't necessarily mean super cheap hardware.

It could be a very noticeable upgrade over the Wii U.

They probably will have to ditch AMD and IBM for sure though. There are cheaper/better options now.

800 GFLOPS + 3-4GB of RAM say ... for Nintendo would be a ton of raw horsepower to make their games with. 

Third parties won't support Nintendo that much anyway, so who cares. They haven't for 20 years now so it's not like this is some new development. 

the rumor makes me want to do the tidus laugh