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Miyamotoo on 10 September 2015
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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

Frankly, Vita graphics are so much better than 3DS (I finding that even PSP graphics look better) that only Vita graphics for next Nintendo handheld would be huge improvement (probably biggest improvement for any Nintendo handheld), but maybe we can expect even better graphics with 720p screen.

Vita have 5" display with 2200mAh battery that holds around 4 hours.

And that's fine, but then the problem is where is your console in all this? 

If the handheld is 115 GFLOPS, lets say, you can't have a console that's like 1.5 TFLOP (15 times more powerful) and expect any kind of real meaningful integration, anymore than the Vita is able run even PS3 ports (it can't). 

That probably means a very low end console, which I don't see working out too well for Nintendo, especially with the AppleTV now coming with free-$10 games and a $149.99 sticker price itself. 

I think Nintendo is also keen on at least having Wii U level visuals on their handheld too so they can port games and quickly bring over existing engines to the portable so that can lead to quicker development times. 

The 3DS form factor isn't even that great to be honest, it's not like it's very pocketable at all. If push comes to shove I would let go of that form factor for the time being (a die shrink to 10nm in the future could open the door to it coming back as a pocket model) and embrace a more tablet like form factor. 

I dont think that difrence in power would be a problem, beacuse of same arhitecture, with same arhitecure anything is possible, also I dont think that home console will be 15x times more poferful than handheld.

For instance Vita and PS4 have solid integration and even dont have same architecture and power gap is huge, also Sony did not aiming for heavy integration with PS4/Vita like Nintendo is aiming for next platform.

Apple TV is basically Nintendo Wii in 2015. so I dont see Apple TV like competition for NIntendo.

We still dont know what is Nintendo aiming in term of power, but I think Wii U visuals on 5" display would be overkill because Nintendo Wii U games look and work very great on big screen, so I really don't see those graphics on 5-6" display.

I am pretty sure that 3DS form factor will change with next handheld.