Oh, I know it exists, I will have to give it a try in the near future!

I've literally never used a tablet outside of my own house or someones house I am visiting. A tablet is literally just a phone with a bigger screen and without the ability to make calls in most cases. I'll use my phone that can actaully fit in my pocket when out and about, and a tablet when I'm not mobile to have a larger display.

There isn't many phones that break the 6 inch mark, and those phones also don't have controls they have to fit on the sides. It's just not practical. If the NX is this size you will see FAR less people using it out and about than the 3ds. It will lose a vast majority of it's appeal as a portable gaming device.

How many people carry mutliple LARGE devices out with them anyway? If someone DOES indeed take a tablet out with them will they want to take a massive handheld out with them too? If they have to choose between them will they pick the games console or the Smart Device. The 3ds is small enough that space management isn't even an issue.

A handheld with a screen size over 6 inches is a terrible mistake. I really hope the consumer version of the NX is smaller, I think it will be.

I commute alot on trains, and I often see people sitting with tablets out, watching movies or tv shows on them on the go.

Occasionally they also game on them (though not as often, seems alot more common on smart phones).

Nintendo just has to make sure its easy for people to put their "movies & tv shows" onto it as well.

It's just a horrendous idea, you don't make a hybrid console and then make the handheld part of it barely portable. And the NX will never have all the functions, capabilities and hardware of a tablet to warrant choosing it over a tablet for space to carry.

The consumer version will be smaller than the prototype anyway, it will be 5.5" or smaller. Any larger and as a portable console the NX WILL fail.

A handheld console that large has NICHE appeal, it might appeal to hardcore gamers but it will not appeal to the mainstream.

Not for Nintendo, but maybe for people who want a traditional handheld they can put in their pocket. The reality is that the market for such a device is only continuing to shrink. A screen over 6" may mean they initially loose some of their old market but they equally have a lot more to gain by making the NX closer to a tablet in functionality. The tablet industry is  pushing 200m units a year(versus the handheld markets 13m) and Tablets are in need of diversification, Nintendo can offer this. Annecdotely I feel pretty confident that most kids 8-17 would rather have a tablet, then a 3DS. Nintendo can offer them 2 in one. Beyond that the hybrid premise is essentially Nintendo's future and its requires a powerful handheld, Tegra X1 will struggle in 6" across casing.

A year or 2 down the line Nintendo would certainly be able to offer a more portable version of the NX, but I'm hoping for an 8" screen personally, I also think it makes better business sense for them.

A handheld console that large would lose a lot of their current market, an 8" screen would make it bigger than a 10" tablet, buttons, analogs etc add a lot onto the size.

Nintendo will keep it small, or lose the vast majority of their current handheld userbase. Only the hardcore will remain. The home console side of the NX would have to drive all the sales to keep that machine alive.

A 6.2" or god forbid an EIGHT INCH MONSTROSITY, has no mass market appeal. It would be the end.

Am I the only one that wears pants with pockets big enough to carry a Wii U controller? I can carry a small television in my pockets. Lmao. This is the first time I can use this but you guys have third-world problems!!!!

YAY!!! So worth it!

We really have no info to make such assumptions. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen someone out in public with their 3DS this year. If we then take into account the amount those people who had a bag they could comfortably put it in, then the number is even more irrelevant.

Also I think a bigger tablet functioning device is far more likely to attract people outside of their core audience, then a traditional clamshell handheld. For this we do have evidence. Again the tablet market sold 200m devices last year versus like 11m dedicated gaming devices (3DS+Vita) being sold. Both Nintendo's biggest successes (DS+Wii) saw them appeal outside their hardcore audience.

I think it will.

The mistake would be to make a small portable 3DS like new portable.

Smart Phone market is just to big and powerfull, and gameing has become alot more common place on them in resent years.

They need to stand out with the NX.

A portable handheld the size of a smart phone, wont do that.

This hybrid needs to powerfull enough that handheld gameing on it stands a clear cut above what any smart phone can do.

Which is why it ll be a gameing tablet, they need the size increase to cram more into it (bigger screen too) so its differnt from smart phones..

They arnt just trying to appeal to the handheld users, but also to those people that want a home console.

It needs to be more powerfull than a tiny smart phone sized handheld can be.

Even more so if the base has a chip as well to boost power for tv mode.  I don't get it either.  Sounds like a hybrid to me, going off rumors, which is all anyone has at the moment.