Wyrdness said:
Soundwave said:
Totally fake. It reads completely like the average Nintendo fan's insight into what the platform might be with no real new insights and a bunch of "safe" (and sometimes silly) bets. No way NCL would allow a leak like that either, it just reeks of BS and lame assumptions.
For example, Nintendo fans think Vita technology is somewhat expensive for Nintendo.
You wanna know what Vita tech costs today?
I can find you a $90 *retail* tablet that has the Vita GPU (slightly better actually I think) the PowerVR SGX544 (this may actually be slightly better). This same tablet also has a much larger, higher res display than the Vita (7-inch 1280x800 resolution display) and a much larger battery than the Vita does with more onboard flash RAM (8GB) and more RAM (1GB vs. 512MB + 128MB).
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9516610&SRCCODE=CANWGOOCAPLA&csid=_63&utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid_search&utm_campaign=paid_search_google_pla&scid=scplp1950200&gclid=COifhdKK3scCFciFfgodicIP9w&gclsrc=aw.ds
Vita tech is *ridiculously* cheap. Even Nintendo won't go that low tech for the handheld, it would not be able to even handle cross gen Wii U ports very well, the Vita can barely handle many PS3 ports as is, we know for the most part most Vita games have to be built from the ground up because that hardware can't run PS3 engines. So how are you supposed to have a "unified" platform when one of the platforms can't even run the games.
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Cheap tech that they can sell for an ultra competitive price like £140 (same launch price as the DS), sounds like something Nintendo would do especially as being a bit more powerful then Vita is still a big jump over the 3DS.
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Nintendo can get a much better processor even for the price you listed for 2016 let alone 2017. They likely won't be using a 7-inch display with a 3800 MaH battery either (totally destroys the Vita).
Beyond that the unified platform concept does not work with a handheld that weak. The iPad/iPhone are relatively close in hardware power so naturally they can run the same apps .... the Vita GPU cannot run most PS3 engines, let alone Wii U engines, so the console would have to be less powerful than the Wii U to have any meaningful unification via software.
