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Soundwave on 23 September 2015
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spemanig said:
TheLastStarFighter said:

I know you really want the dual-screen setup, but it doesn't make a tonne of sense these days.  Back when touch screen was new and a novelty it made sense to have a seperate screen below that was touch and a better screen above for the main game action.  But these days large touch screens are possible and common, and a the look of an iPad is considered much more cool to kids than that of a DS.  

And Nintendo has already switched to a single screen setup with the 2DS, they just sperate it with a plastic bar.  I expect the next handheld to be tablet styled, with a large single screen and physical controls.  The screen will be large enough to simulate two DS screens if needed for older titles.


They switched to the 2DS, before switching back to the N3DS, which was vastly more successful. The 2DS was nothing more than a budget 2DS, like the iPhone 5C that never stuck.

It has nothing to do with me wanting the DS set up. I absolutely had Amiibo and what it does to complete games, but I'm not letting that hamper my reality that Amiibo will be the crux of physical media for the NX. I know the NXDS will have dual screens because it's literally the only possible way the unified platform, as Nintendo described it, is happening. Just like I said the gamepad was staying, back when everyone thought it was being dropped. Guess what? Two patents already confirmed me right.

Yet they're dropping the second screen on the line of hardware with exponencially more success with a second screen, and by doing so will completely destroy the cross compatability a unified platform is meant to provide since the NX will still have it and obviously still use it "because kids today like the shape of tablets?" The kind of aesthetic Nintendo literally are quoted as being the reason the Wii U's gamepad was so confusing and undesirable? Give me a massive break.

No, a tablet handheld definitely isn't happening.


I think we are exiting an era of Nintendo. 

1983-1995 - NES/SNES Era, Initial Nintendo boom, rise as internationl brand

1996-2003 - N64/GCN era, end of Yamauchi's presidency, birth of Pokemon craze

2004 - 2015 - Wii/DS casual gaming boom and then bust era, Mr. Iwata RIP

2016 - New Era Begins; Smartphone apps, NX, Theme Parks, Movies, Quality of Life, etc. etc. 

I think Nintendo will be very different in the coming years. You can already see they are changing their position on smartphone games which is a radical change, the merging of their console and handheld teams (EAD is no longer EAD technically, etc.), willingness now to make movies and theme park licensing after shooting down those ideas for years, etc etc. Obviously they are willing to do things today that they wouldn't even 5-6 years ago. 

NX will be different too, I don't think it's just going to be "basically the same thing as the last 12 years, just tweaked a little". I personally just don't see it, they're making some radical changes and I think that will reflect in NX also. I don't know if that's good or bad but we will find out soon. 

I do think the Nikkei report on NX supporting Android apps in some way is more or less correct though. They are spot on with their Nintendo reporting. That's going to be one of many changes. 

I don't know if NX (portable?) will be a tablet, but I don't think it'll be basically just a DS/3DS with better graphics either. I think that era has ended within Nintendo. Personally my guess is "NX" is a multitude of devices, it's not just one thing, it's not even two things and I also think the traditional upgrade cycle of hardware is going to end with NX as well.