| HoloDust said: I'm eager to see what they'll come up with, specially with all the Fusion talk. Plus nVidia already having 512 GFLOPS SoC (Tegra X1), Apple will have something similar by the end of the year too. Given that Shield Tablet (K1) is only $300 with 8 inch 1200p touchscreen, if they want to, by the end of 2016 , they can easily have around WiiU power in handheld. |
Ya I think the next handheld will be somewhere between Vita & Wii U in terms of power, similar to how 3DS is between PSP & Wii. 3DS/New 3DS are able to display Wii level visuals on a smaller screen, at a lower resolution and even able to handle ports of some of the more graphically impressive Wii games like Donkey Kong Country Returns, Monster Hunter Tri & Xenoblade Chronicles.
Nintendo did say they plan on "absorbing" the Wii U architecture for their next-gen devices so despite being weaker than Wii U, it should be able to handle down-ported versions of Wii U games/engines easier than 3DS can with Wii.
The console I believe will be similar but instead it will be a slightly enhanced Wii U. Same architecture as Wii U/handheld but more powerful, so games/engines are up ported.
Both devices will share the sames games but the handheld will be at 480/540p and the console at 1080p with some extra graphical effects.
I also believe Nintendo will ditch dual screens and the Gamepad. The handheld will resemble a smaller/sleaker Gamepad, perhaps with a 5 inch screen and 3DS style analog nubs, similar in size to Vita. The console will have a standard controller and when linked together, the handheld can act as a Gamepad for the console which will give the option for dual-screen gameplay.
Also both devices will go full digital and allow cross-buy/cross-save on all games.
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