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numberwang on 27 July 2016

So what about the WiiU? A mobile NX can't be that much faster and the new Zelda proves the concept of cross development for both plattforms. If there is no dedicated home console, will the WiiU be supported with NX-ports for the coming years?



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TheLastStarFighter on 27 July 2016
numberwang said:

So what about the WiiU? A mobile NX can't be that much faster and the new Zelda proves the concept of cross development for both plattforms. If there is no dedicated home console, will the WiiU be supported with NX-ports for the coming years?

Why would you port NX games to Wii U, when you can play the NX games at home, they run better, and no one owns a Wii U?



method114 on 27 July 2016
Mr Puggsly said:
method114 said:
Well the detachable controllers feature will be good if you connect it to the TV but now I wonder how powerful the system will be. If it's a handheld it can't possible be stronger than the PS4.

If it has the Tegra X1 chip as suspected, its a lot less powerful than X1/PS4 but a lot more powerful than 7th gen machines.

Which is fine for stuff people generally want on Nintendo machines.

That's a shame. I wonder if this is going to effect their third party support again. 



TheSpindler on 27 July 2016
teigaga said:
TheSpindler said:
Oh and he said this later;

"All can I say that the chip is not the tegra x1 but his successor and that is modular which can increase your graphics capabilities through modules in cartridges"

This sounds amazing! 

Whats being said here? 

 "Preco do console proposto será $300 o lcd será vendido por $100 a $200 dependendo do tamanho e resolução. E controles extras para acoplar de forma portátil $50" 

A quick google translates eludes to the higher end  screens being sold seperately or something?

 

 

The console as a whole will be $300, the LCD part 100 or 200 dependent on resolution, so I guess multiple form factors, perhaps a tablet and cel phone sized version maybe? and either controller attachments or seperate controllers for $50.

If it's the controller attachment for $50 there's probably more to them than just being input, and maybe they have more?



numberwang on 27 July 2016

If the mobile NX is just a tad faster than the WiiU, then very few WiiU owners (like me) will upgrade. I would still buy Nintendo games if there were ported to the WiiU. The existing install base of 14 Mio. WiiU is nothing to scuff at, the NX has to prove that it will sell units.

 

Nintendo has to offer something for the home console players, let it be a dedicated NX-home-console or a base station with extra GPU boost.



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Barozi on 27 July 2016

I see a huge problem when it comes to the games' sizes and portable gaming.

This thing clearly won't have a 3.5" HDD and a 2.5" HDD sounds unlikely as well. So how the hell are you supposed to fit multiple digital games on that thing when you're on the go? Sounds like cartridges is the only way to go then. Unless you want to pay 350€ for a 512GB sd card.



Lonely_Dolphin on 27 July 2016
numberwang said:

If the mobile NX is just a tad faster than the WiiU, then very few WiiU owners (like me) will upgrade. I would still buy Nintendo games if there were ported to the WiiU. The existing install base of 14 Mio. WiiU is nothing to scuff at, the NX has to prove that it will sell units.

 

Nintendo has to offer something for the home console players, let it be a dedicated NX-home-console or a base station with extra GPU boost.

 

Ha! As if any NX game is gonna get ported to Wii U and not the other way around! Also I highly doubt most Wii U owners are just gonna give up on playing Nintendo games for such a petty reason when they had way more reason not to get a Wii U.

What it offers for home console players is more games, a (hopefully) cheap price, and a portability option.



Lonely_Dolphin on 27 July 2016
Barozi said:
I see a huge problem when it comes to the games' sizes and portable gaming.

This thing clearly won't have a 3.5" HDD and a 2.5" HDD sounds unlikely as well. So how the hell are you supposed to fit multiple digital games on that thing when you're on the go? Sounds like cartridges is the only way to go then. Unless you want to pay 350€ for a 512GB sd card.

 

I'm sure it'll have atleast 32GB internal which is enough to hold multiple Wii U games.



Veknoid_Outcast on 27 July 2016
Soundwave said:

If it can sell 15-20 million in Japan, it will get a ton of Japanese support and all Nintendo support concentrated on one platform plus probably Android apps and lots of indie games.

That's enough software support.

Nintendo is never going to win with the Western "dudebros" crowd, they are set with Sony or Microsoft and that's that, the only way they would get this audience's attention is with an 8 TFLOP machine, which would be the size of a PC and a power brick the size of the Wii U console with a $600 price point. 

They'd have to go to ridiculous extremes, they are not getting the GTA/Calladooty crowd, too late for that, the GameCube era basically decided that. Once MS decided they had nothing better to do than to waddle into another industry and just basically take up space like a fat soccer mom in an elevator, there wasn't room left for Nintendo to engage that same market. 

Nintendo maaaaybe had a window of oppurtunity if it was just the PS4 and XB1, but now with Neo/Scorpio clogging up the market, nope. This direction will work better for them at least this is something different and it can dominate the Japanese market and do OK in the West/Europe. 

Best. Visual. Ever.

I'm cracking up over here :D



numberwang on 27 July 2016

If the rumor with the Tegra X1 is true, the NX will be a "portable WiiU" in capabilities, which is nice, but certainly will sway very few WiiU owners to buy it. Let's see if Nintendo will also offer something to buy for the home audience in 2017, let it be ported games or a dedicted home console.

 

Edit: this will also mean that Nintendo could port their greatest WiiU successes to the NX at launch.