How powerful will Nintendo's next handheld be?

[se7en7thre3]

zorg1000 said:

se7en7thre3 said:

Weak HW and online experience affects the 3rd parties/crowd , and with those relations not improving anytime soon, Ninty is forced to support itself with the Fusion idea.  

Fusion will basically be a perfected, slightly more powerful Vita + PS4, with the priorities reversed.  Ninty's next console won't be crippled by an expensive gamepad, b/c that is what the handheld is for.  The console will be sold with a reg. controller, and also an sku without any controller.  

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ya thats pretty much exactly how i see it except i dont think the console will be more powerful than PS4, im thinking a bit more powerful than Wii U similar to the gap between GC & Wii.

Since Iwata said they want to "absorb" the architecture of Wii U for future devices i think it will have similar hardware as Wii U but a fadter CPU and double the RAM.

basically the fusion handheld will essentially be a somewhat downgraded Wii U in specs and the console will be a somewhat upgraded Wii U. this way they can share the same library just with a different resolution/frame rate between devices.

My thinking is Nintendo will aim for a true 1080p system (slightly better than PS4), while MS & Sony gear up for 4k gaming in '18 or '19.  With the unified approach, it may attract 3rd parties (un)intentionally.  It would be a very well rounded console.

But I can see your reasoning as well.  Its possible that the Fusion home dock will be a  discreet little box, in fact, just as you suggested slightly above Wii U.  Like the GCN that didn't sell too well, Ninty ended up just barely boosting their chips for Wii.  So the Wii U's commercial failure could make  Ninty simply remix their old tech.