Soundwave on 18 November 2014
| Mr Khan said: Nintendo's own statements seem to indicate that they want two "brother" consoles that can share the same library, but are still different devices. Our own Soundwave who has been a big advocate for this feels that the console should be like Vita TV but with better upscaling, able to render whatever the handheld puts out at 1080/60, but otherwise have no power of its own. Handheld would be around Wii U level power. |
Actually just to clarify my stance, the home variant will have its own chips (just like the VitaTV has its own chip, it's not powered by a portable Vita or something).
You won't need the handheld to run games. That's good for people who have no interest in a handheld and just want to play games at home on their TV.
I've thought of the "dock" idea, but ultimately it just doesn't make a lot of sense in practise. The chip should be cheap anyway, it's the LCD screen/battery in the portable that eats up a lot of the hardware cost. So the home variant even if it has the same chip but with more hardware cores + RAM will still be cheaper to manufacture.
