Should Nintendo's next console be a microconsole?

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JazzB1987 said:

What Nintendo should do is make a console that is cheap an upgradeable.


You know like when the N64 had the expansion pack? But isntead of that make the CPU and GPU and RAM be upgradeable.

like this:



I mean they want to make the same games work on 3DS and WiiU successor. So its kinda like the iPhone iPad thing and since I can play the same games on the newest iPhone that I can on the first one (albeit with performance difference)  this would be the perfect solution.

I mean its completely retarted that I have to buy a new case, display, buttons, mainboard,  just so I get a new CPU and GPU when wanting a faster phone. Make 2 "SKUs"  complete device or upgrade set.

Just imagine you would have to buy a new desktop PC just because your ram dies. How retarded would that be? Phones and consoles (and all the other stuff like TVs etc.) are retarded yes.

Well technically if the console is small enough and power efficient enough what they *could* do is open up the doors to allowing people to buy 2 consoles and link them together for double the horsepower through a high speed link port. 

Wouldn't be that different from what people do on PCs where they have dual GPUs for far more horsepower, only this would be a lot smaller, cheaper, and easier (just plug a cable between the two and voila). 

So if you had say a 600-700 GFLOP "microconsole" using mobile parts that runs at about 12-14 watts, linking two of them would get you to 1.2TFLOP-1.4 TFLOPS at only 24-28 watts. That's some serious horsepower. 

I doubt Nintendo would do that, but it is one of those things that becomes plausible when you are using mobile components.