Nintendo E3 shows that this is a transition year

[JEMC]

MohammadBadir said:

JEMC said:

I also thought that NX would be a handheld first, home console later, but after this E3 I'm not sure anymore. Nintendo didn't show any game that says "hey, I'm a BIG Nintendo game", they only showed spin-offs and games that were revealed years ago (like SMT x FE, in japanese :facepalm:). Any big new project from Nintendo have been moved to NX, expect Zelda because even they know that not launching Zelda on WiiU would be too problematic.

And Retro could use the same engine of the Prime games since the GameCube to WiiU because the insides of the machines didn't differ much. The Wii was a GameCube on steroids, and WiiU in a lot of things is a Wii x3. It will be really, really hard for Nintendo to do the same thing with their next console.

Considering it's supposed to "absorb the WiiU arc" I'm afraid it'll be PowerPC again, RIP, lol.

I've never believed that that statement was meant to be literal, but more as a way of thinking.

Wii U was an enhanced version of Wii, and that brought in cons and pros. Some of the pros is that it allowed their devs to shorten their learning curve because they already knew some of the hardware they were working on.

I think that's the part they want to carry on, but not in the sense of NX being an enhanced Wii U but the NX handheld and NX home console sharing the same architecture (something also said by Iwata) but not the same hardware. Think of a handheld having a dual core CPU and a 16 "graphic cores" GPU and a home console with eight of the same CPU cores and 64 of the same "graphic cores", making the home console noticeably more powerful than the handheld but, because both have the same kind of hardware (but not the same number of them and thus power), devs will be able to go from working on one game for the handheld to a game for the home console and viceversa with little to no learning curve.

But that's just me speculating.

And the odds of NX using PowerPC are almost none. IBM moved on from those kind of cores and what they have now is great for servers but not great for a console.