BlkPaladin on 24 January 2013
| RolStoppable said: I don't rule it out entirely, because it would be the next step in Nintendo's self-destruction. 1) Financially, it's not feasible. Packing in the required power for third party developers, keeping it at a portable size, have sufficient battery life and a reasonable price is an impossibility. For that alone it's already a completely bad idea to even attempt this. 2) It has no practical purposes on a massive scale. I give you that home console and handheld in one would be a neat idea for singles, but that's about it. Since this device isn't going to be cheap, it will erode Nintendo's handheld market. Parents aren't going to buy their kids such an expensive device. Additionally, the people this thing will appeal to the most are the same that buy both a Nintendo home console and a Nintendo handheld today. If Nintendo combined their home console and handheld in a single device, you wouldn't see Nintendo gaining sales from it, but the opposite. It's such a bad idea. It's a really, really, really bad idea. |
With the advent of stream services the tech itself in the controller/main unit doesn't have to be that cutting edge, if an idea like this is paired with streaming technology it becomes fesible, plus they can still sell and stand along handheld with all the funcationality of the portable controlllers and extra features like phone service. They could also team up with Samsung or another cell phone manufacturer to do this. But only time will tell this is still a good five or so years down the road.
