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Soundwave on 11 September 2015
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:


Nintendo can get much better than the Vita chip even for cheap by fall 2016. 

I don't know why some Nintendo fans have this idea that the Vita chip is something special, lol, I saw an Acer tablet last week that has the same GPU as the Vita, more RAM, a bigger battery, and bigger/higher resolution display for $109 retail. Mobile tech is improving massively these days. 

The portable NX should be able to run pretty much ALL the major games and certainly all/most of Nintendo's games I would think. That's where most likey 80% of the NX audience is going to be. So it has to be designed to have enough horsepower to be able to run the "big boy" games, the real Zelda, not just a watered down side story. That type of thing. 

Like I said, Nintendo will aim affordable and yet functional devices.

I don't think Vita is something special toady, but Vita have incomparably better graphics than 3DS and I think there is no really need for better graphics than those on Vita.

Even Vita hardware NX portable will able to run almost evry Nintendo game, but you cant expect that Nintendo will make handheld version of game that will have exatly same graphics like home console version, and its not thing just about resolution.

Like I wrote, great example of what Nintendo will probably do is Resident Evil Revelation for 3DS and WiiU   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4BXd-v095Y

They need to put more effort/thought into the handheld than that. It's time to really start looking at the portable as the MAIN part of the NX equation, not some little add-on accessorie that can get by with 5 year old technology in today's market. 

Even kids are not falling for that anymore as evident by Nintendo hardware sales reaching new lows in both of the last two years. 

Yes I agree with the scalable tech part of the equation, but not with the Vita tech part of it. That thing will be badly outdated by launch day and by year 2/3 will be laughably far behind even $99 tablets in technology of 2017/18. 

At minimum they should be using a chip comparable to the Apple A8X (preferably at 14nm), which will be two years old by fall 2016.