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prayformojo on 19 August 2014
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Soundwave said:
archbrix said:
Soundwave said:

A handheld + home VitaTV like box are "seperate" devices but still linked. 

If Nintendo really does go this route they'll be saying goodbye to disc based games, which is possible I guess, seeing as how 3DS cards have a maximum capacity of 8GBs iirc, and are about 8x the size of DS cards.  If Nintendo's new cards are 3-4x the size of 3DS cards, then I could see it.


4-16GB would be good enough for most games. They could maybe offer a 32GB card later on.

All of Nintendo's Wii U games are fairly compact ... Mario 3D World is 1.6GB, Mario Kart 8 is 5GB. Third party games like ACIV is 13GB, Sonic Lost World is just under 7GB. 

Good bye to discs I think. Nintendo's next "console" will probably be their smallest ever, especially if it's just the handheld chip x2 or x3. It shouldn't require a fan (a first for Nintendo since the N64) too. I'm thinking maybe something larger than the VitaTV but not by much. 

The "NintendoTV" box could be extremely cheap too ... like maybe even $179.99 to launch with. That could get a lot of people into the ecosystem for cheap. Might not be a bad play for Nintendo. If eventually you can get it down to $129.99 or $99.99 and it has access to hundreds of back catalog Nintendo games + the ability to play all their new games on the TV in 1080P, and is a tiny microconsole ... I think a lot of people might be interested in that. 


This is actually a really good idea. They aren't going to ditch physical games any time soon, so little 3DS like carts would be perfect. If they could get it into homes for say, $199.99? We may have a return to commercial glory on our hands.