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Miyamotoo on 21 August 2015
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Soundwave said:

My suspicion is while there will be multiple form factors, there will only be one primarily form factor that has the majority of sales, and I think that likely could be the portable version which is able to stream games to the TV. I think that is central to the "novelty" of the NX line ... it's a handheld that can double as a home console at the snap of a finger. 

There may be an optional mini-console/home dock type thing that runs the games on the TV at a higher resolution/better visual fidelity, since a home device can consume more electricity, but that device I suspect will be entirely optional and will be a secondary thing in terms of sales. 

That's just my take on it though.

Soundwave said:

There's a poster named Matt on NeoGaf, who apparently has a flawless track record for having inside info, but he posts very rarely and doesn't really boast about his claims. 

He's cryptically said two things about NX:

- In a thread asking whether or not NX might be less powerful than the Wii U, he simply put "It's not". So it's more powerful than the Wii U according to him. 

- It apparently has a screen, and the screen resolution is higher than what many people were speculating, but not as high as others would say. In the context of that thread, I take that to mean a 720p screen, since many were saying Nintendo would go with a very low res screen (480p or 540p) as that's usually been their style in the past, but it won't be an extremely high end screen (ala 1080p or something). 

Unseen 64 has said it's not aiming to compete with the PS4 on specs. 

That all leads me to believe we're looking at a handheld that's more powerful than the Wii U (possibly not by a ton though) as the primary or maybe even the only SKU (though I still think there's probably two). My guesses basede on what we know right now ...

NX Portable - Main SKU, 300-350 GFLOP-ish AMD + ARM system on chip (14nm?). Better than Wii U graphics at 4-6 hour battery life, cheap but nice looking screen (720p, custom shape?). No dual screen, has some kind of new control input that changes the gameplay experience. Nintendo OS but can run Android apps that Nintendo has to approve and gets a cut of. Can stream games wirelessly to the TV, so it's "revolutionary" also for the fact that it's a portable and TV console all in one package. $250. 

NX Mini-Console - Optional device for people who are primarily play at home and want full 1080P resolution graphics and perhaps better graphics. Plays the same games as NX Portable. Same type of chip as the portable, just scaled up by 2x-4x (700 GFLOP-1.4 TFLOP depending on how far Nintendo wants to go) with more RAM. Fairly cheap to mass produce. 

Soundwave said:

A fairly powerful handheld (Wii U++ level visuals) that can also double as a wireless home console that can wirelessly send a video signal to the TV (the reverse of the Wii U) I think would do quite well for Nintendo possibly. Add in a new type of control input as a bonus, and you have something that's fairly unique to the marketplace and well worth even $250 (especially if Nintendo is bringing big guns like Zelda NX and Mario NX to the launch window). 

Something like that may even allow for scaled down PS4/XB1 ports as *portable* titles. Think about it, 960x540 for example only requires 1/4 of the pixels a 1080P game does, Japanese devs in particular likely would support a machine like that very, very strongly.

This may be why we've already seen Square-Enix name drop NX for Dragon Quest XI. 

No, a moderate upgrade on the Wii U may not be a big deal to some ... but can you put your Wii U in your coat pocket and play it on the subway? Didn't think so. 

I could see a 720p screen, that runs Wii U-caliber graphics at native res, and if the dev wants to push it harder (like PS4-ish visuals) then they can drop down to 960x540 resolution. That would work well enough I think.

I completely agree with you about what NX will probably be.