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teigaga on 14 March 2015
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Soundwave said:
teigaga said:
Soundwave said:

I doubt it will be that exactly.

It will be the handheld chip on both devices, but you'll have to buy seperate devices to play on your TV. 

Same deal as Vita + Vita TV ... you can't just hook up your Vita to your TV, you have to buy a Vita TV for that. 

Except I think in Nintendo's case, the console version will be more powerful, they could just literally even just use 2x-3x the CPU/GPU cores. Mobile parts are small, power efficient, and usually scale in cost very nicely, making a "stackable" console variant very easy to do. 

The home console variant of this would sell worse then the Vita. Why would they do this?? :(

Because lets take a game like Zelda U or Splatoon for example. 

Right now Nintendo can only sell that game to about 10-15 million users (so it's not like Wii U is outselling the Vita anyway by any big measure). And those games probably cost a pretty penny to make too, HD development ain't cheap on games of this scale. 

Under a Fusion set up these games would be looking at 60+ million users to sell too. Likely meaning most of their big game IP would at least double in sales. 

The seperate console/portable lines doesn't make sense for Nintendo anymore, they likely can make (a lot) more money with a Fusion setup because of higher software sales. 

It's also an idea that wasn't possible in the past, in the past you couldn't use mobile chips to reasonably build a decent home console, but today you can, if you put two or three Apple A8 processors (the iPhone 6 chip) for example into a small box, that arguably would be more powerful than the Wii U in most ways.

Today you can make an HD platform with reasonably nice looking graphics using the same mobile components that are in portable devices like smartphones. That wasn't an option for Nintendo in the past, otherwise who knows, they may have gone Fusion a while ago if they could have. 

OK, I get its a safe option. Its essentially them handing in the card on console market but expanding their own software revenue....

God forbid this ever happens.