What's NX for Nintendo?

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Captain_Yuri said:

What a horrible idea cause it presumes that the console will be run by magic and that Nintendo will leave the handheld space!

Firstly, if a console is portable, there is no reason for them to have a handheld which = cutting their most successful division

Secondly, this has to be within a $300 price range and it has to be portable... That means that the hardware itself will be as weak as the wiiU or just a bit stronger but still not even close to being as powerful as a ps4/x1 let alone ps5/x2 because this nonsense idea has a bottleneck which is the battery.. Who on earth would want a next gen console thats not even capable of "current gen"? And the third parties won't even bother so basically, its wiiU 2.0 with the handheld division gone!

Or if its $200, then it will look like trash on the TV and considering the future is 4k... Upscaling sub 720p to 4k or to even 1080p would look like ass and the performance of it will be weaker than the wiiU

Hybrid system is a horrible idea and there are many more reasons as to why this wouldn't work

Well yeah there is a bunch of difficulties with doing this but you are looking at it in a narrow way.

What magic are you talking about? I assume it would run on electricity like every console. On the go it would run on lithium batteries just like a handheld. While docked it would charge the battery and operate in the same fashion laptops do with the cord plugged in. How much battery would a Wii U need after being shrunk down? IDK, but less than what the current model does.

First, leaving the handheld space would intail not having a handheld and this would be a handheld... The fusion concept is essentially not elminating either division's function but combining them. You could easily say they cut their home console division but again that's flawed. What fusion would do would reduce their need to have two seperate hardwares that support two seperate software processess.

Second, yeah price point is a hurdle. I don't know if it would be cheaper trying to fit a Wii U in a handheld device or to go with new hardware. The idea is not to be as powerful as PS4/X1, that's been pretty obvious out of Nintendo with Wii/WiiU/DS/3DS. The possible launch date also doesn't quite align it anywhere near what "PS5" or "Xbox random number". Those consoles won't release till somewhere between 2019-2022. Nintendo could release a new handheld in 2017 and make it a Wii U and still have years before the next gen jump. That's if they care or not and trying out a fusion device could simply be their new handheld if they decide to release a dedicated home console to match that. Fusion would essentially attempt to save the Wii U by making it the sucessor to 3DS. Strange yes, but also crazy. 

This device could also be sold as a handheld and the hub could be the optional home accessory for it. This could help the price issue. If it works fine as a handheld there is no need for a TV hub, though making it optional has its drawbacks. There is no reason to force someone who has a Wii U to buy a handheld Wii U that comes with a Wii U. (lol) They could keep this handheld home console hybrid along side their next big thing and just treat it like their handheld that has TV capability/backwards(horizontal?) compatibility with the gen 8 Wii U. Which is also weird.