| Soundwave said: I don't think Nintendo wants to handle two consoles any longer. That's the whole reason for the new Nintendo "lifestyle" business ... that will be their second pillar, which allows them to unify their console/HH business. It's time honestly ... today with the advances in mobile chip tech you can finally do this. Sure ok, maybe the home dock would feature a 4x cluster of GPU cores that are clocked higher (that probably takes you to 1080P). But these are more of the details I'm sure they can iron out. It's an idea that's time simply has come IMO. They should honestly get on it before Apple starts getting too cozy selling game apps on the television. |
No, I think Nintendo doesn't want to handle two DIFFERENT consoles any longer. With shared architectures, they won't need to to worry about learning so much about the other console, droughts will be lesser of a problem, which what I think they're going for.
As for this "dock", increasing raw power like that will liikely make it far more expensive than the handheld. "Ironing" out these details won't be as simple as you think, something with 4x the GPU power of the handheld as a dock will not make it an attractive product, if it's ONLY to "dock" the handheld. This will mean the people who will be buying it, will be the handheld owners and no one else, otherwise it'll be useless. Let's look at the AMD R7 240, that's a 320 shader card, you can buy this for $74.99. Let's "multiply the shader cores by four", now it's a 1280 shader card (the R9 270), this one is currenlty $209.99. That's already a $135 difference. If the handheld goes for $199, this "dock" will not only need this "more powerful" GPU, it'll also need: an upclocked CPU with more raw power, more RAM potentially (DDR4 perhaps), some forms of storage, these "connectors" that dock the handheld, it will also need a better cooling system to handle all of that .....yeah, we're talking about well over $300 dollars...... for a "dock"? Either they make a full console out of this, or they don't do this at all, because this thing will likely sell terribly.
Add: I'm pretty sure Nintendo doesn't want another Gamecube-like situation in terms of sales, and that's where this "dock" will likely be going...no...it'll do a LOT worse.
