Its very certain that they are using a gimmick for NX (brand new concept).

A gimmicky console is ALOT easier to sell at low priece then at high priece.

Just check Oculus Rift / HTC Vive. Those things are probl amazing (never tested them) but they wont be a great success sales whise. Just because they are that damn expensive.

If Nintendo manages to get a cool gimmick many people are interested in, they will sell way more consoles at a cheaper priece because people will buy the console for the gimmick and not for its graphics (like wii).

Many people were cool with spending 150 bucks on a wii to test this social  motion gaming.

If the wii would be 400 bucks, they would never manage to sell 100mio units.

Who cares.

There is only one question that anybody should be concerned with - Can it run 3rd party titles without any developer headaches. How much more or less powerful it is compared to PS4 is irrelevant.

its not only "can it run games".

Ps3 was difficult too, probl way more difficult tbh.

Games like fifa already got ported (fifa 12). EA could just update the teams and make their minor changes and release that game each year again. But they just dont want to release games on a nintendo consoles.

Games like Disney Infitiny and Skylander just prooving that its not impossible to port games to wii u. At least smaller games like fifa.

It'll be so,eh were around as powerful as the N64 and Wii, but less powerful than the PS2.

That was in response to the constate power question/concerns not console itself. As with any Nintendo console obviously your answer is right in the general scope. It would not hurt to have more Japanese 3rd parties, even just B class ones.

It's not prooving that and if anythijng its showing that gimmick, motion, 2 screen or what ever you want to call it that it's not needed through reviews and probably its lifetime sales. It's a mistake that Nintendo "should" of picked up on and learnt from it moving into the NX.

There's enough reason to believe that it's on par with XBO at least.

AKA more than powerful enough.

so we get a wii u 2? The perfect secondary console 10 mio+ people will buy ?

So because of star fox zero reviews they will scratch their original NX idea over and instead of releasing a gimmicky but weak console they will release a powerfull console without gimmicks in less then a year? Sounds plausible.

I think good Nintendo games is given.

But as Malstrom said recently:

" Selling game consoles is about creating a Great Software Pipeline of both First and Third Party games. It is not about the hardware. It also isn’t about the Killer App. It is about the probability of creating killer-apps. The best way to increase that probability is release as many games as possible."

OT: What is powerful in march 2017, 3+ years after PS4 launch, for new console? My answer would be around 3xPS4, so that 3 years later there's another 3x jump for total of 9x...that would then be a whole new gen, as in PS5, NextBox and NX2. I sincerely doubt it will be powerful by that definition.