Soundwave said:
Pavolink said:
I have been thinking about the Fusion machine. As far as I understand your post there will be a portable part around march-april 2016, and a console part for holiday 2016. Both will make Fusion work.
In regards of the portable part I don't have a problem, but my doubt and concern is about the console part. When Nintendo release the portable part there will be games that I understand will be playable months after in the console counterpart. But how does that games will look? Aside from better framerate and resolution, I don't think they can upgrade graphics with it. Poly count and textures will be the same and it won't look very good in a 1080p tv.
On the other hand, having the portable part as a stream device (Wii U gamepad off-tv) and the game running since the beggining from the console part will mean both must launch at the same time, but with this they can release full HD games with impressive graphics. Which raises another doubt, do I need to have on my console all the time to play on my portable part? Or should it play only downloaded games? In that case, will Fusion be a digital machine like PSPgo?
My concern is if the Fusion portable will be able to play the same games of the Fusion console and it would be able to handle it. Imagine a beautiful Zelda with high polycount, impressive textures and outstanding lighting played on my console Fusion. Could I be able to play the same game on the portable Fusion?
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Likely reality is that the "Fusion" platform will likely top off at visuals just slightly better than the Wii U, and portable Fusion will run the games at a lower resolution (like the Vita actually runs many games at less than 960x540 resolution even). The home variant could maybe run the same game at 1080P though. Like the same chip as the handheld maybe with 2-4x the CPU/GPU cores and double the RAM.
That's kinda where I see it going.
I think modern mobile processors should be capable of that by 2015, a Snapdragon 805 + Adreno GPU should be able to come close to matching Wii U visuals at say 540p.
I suspect the Fusion will largely be a portable platform first and foremost, the home variant will be more like a secondary thing for people who really need to play their Nintendo games on a TV (a decidely shrinking demographic) or a value accessory for portable players .
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Or for local multiplayer. The preorder numbers suggest that Mario Kart is still not to be underestimated. Smash Bros too.
