| NoirSon said: I can see the next Nintendo handheld being something closer to a original GBA/PSP/VITA in terms of design but a full on tablet would be suicide. Nintendo won't fork over the dough to have it able to do full on tablet options or the app market place to make it worthwhile. Not to mention, while they have obviously noticed most prefer the LL/XL line for the DS/3DS, they also know that the bigger the screen the more expensive and the Nintendo portables have always been built around being relatively inexpensive for both Nintendo and the consumer. THE one time this wasn't the case was the 3DS and we see how that started off. The design of the next Nintendo handheld won't be innovative, but it will service the needs of Nintendo and other developers. It can still be clam shelled like the GBA SP/DS/3DS and just have one true screen. |
| NoirSon said: I can see the next Nintendo handheld being something closer to a original GBA/PSP/VITA in terms of design but a full on tablet would be suicide. Nintendo won't fork over the dough to have it able to do full on tablet options or the app market place to make it worthwhile. Not to mention, while they have obviously noticed most prefer the LL/XL line for the DS/3DS, they also know that the bigger the screen the more expensive and the Nintendo portables have always been built around being relatively inexpensive for both Nintendo and the consumer. THE one time this wasn't the case was the 3DS and we see how that started off. The design of the next Nintendo handheld won't be innovative, but it will service the needs of Nintendo and other developers. It can still be clam shelled like the GBA SP/DS/3DS and just have one true screen. |
So what defines a tablet? If the screen is X or Y-size big? If it's a little smaller it's not a tablet? I think this is all just silly semantics.
Nintendo offers a non-chamshell 3DS (2DS) already, likely they will offer the portable NX in a couple of different configs, not sure why people can't wrap their head around this idea.
As long as Nintendo doesn't do something retarded like use a propietary or resistive touchscreen again (which no one else is using, thus they have to pay more for it) you can get a 6-7 inch 1280x720 display for peanuts these days. Even cheap-ass $150 tablets being sold at a profit have screens of that resolution/size.
As for apps, that's where using a Nintendo OS, but having an Android back-end could be smart. They could theoretically get access to thousands of Android apps, which they could control on their own eShop (like Amazon does with Kindle) giving them tons of functionality without having to pay a dime.
