Apple A9X: The Mobile Processor That Outperforms a Wii U?

[TheLastStarFighter]

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.

The NX platforms don't need two screens to be compatible, they just both need to have a touch screen. Since TVs don't have touch, the controller will need to have it built in. And the NX tablet can simulate two screens if need be NY flipping vertically and dividing the screen like 2DS.

 

Gamepad was rejected as a tablet function because it's a crappy tablet. It looks like a cheap Leapfrog device, not a premium product like an iPad.  If NXTab can boast the kind of setup described in this thread, it could be viewed as a superior product to most tablets rather than a child's toy alternative.