| asqarkabab said: It will be a hybrid console with handheld and console variabt that can connect with each other |
I could see both.
Lets assume 70 GFLOPS/watt
NX Mobile Console (aka: the Hybrid) - at just a shade over 10 watts power consumption it would need a large battery. The good news is batteries are pretty darn cheap these days. The iPad Air battery is $12 at manufacturing cost at 32 wH, a battery that size could power a mobile console for about 3 hours. Make it a $18 battery with 50% more size, and you got about 4.5+ hours of play ... about the same that a modern 3DS gives you.
Not bad.
Japan would probably love it and it could clock in at about 600 GFLOPS away from the power outlet, good enough I would think to have ports of basically all/most third party titles with some effects scaled back at 720p.
Mobile tech is really fascinating to me, they can get so much power into a small evelope today and the way in which Nintendo could scale that up and down would be really interesting.
Making a "mobile console" and a "home console" would also fit with what Mr. Iwata said about Japan and the West having different tastes in how they enjoy their games hardware wise, and three SKUs would also fit with Mr. Iwata saying a unified platform could open the door to more than just 2 Nintendo systems as has been the norm in the past.
