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Soundwave on 23 September 2015
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BlueFalcon said:

To add to my last post, Nintendo launched the New 3DS in October of 2014 in Japan, January 2015 in Europe and February 2015 in North America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Nintendo_3DS

That means it would be THE most idiotic business strategy to have the NX being yet another portable system. The smartest thing Nintendo could do here is to expand its software sales, but without alienating all the New 3DS customers. At the same time, they MUST make it as simple as possible for 3rd parties to port XB1/PS4/PC games which means it's a MUST to include an X86 CPU in the NX for traditional console games. The cheapest way to achieve this strategy is to go with an AMD APU for the NX. What that means is Nintendo should combine the AMD APU with an ARM CPU/SoC so that the NX could play all the traditional multi-platform PS4/XB1/PC games + the entire 3DS/new 3DS library. That would make the console truly epic and allow and it would not cannibalize the sales of the New 3DS since portables do not directly compete with home consoles.

Sony failed with the PS4+Vita eco-system since you couldn't play Vita games on PS4 without the Vita. Vita itself was a failure since Sony's 1st party games can't hope to compete with Nintendo's. If Nintendo learns from all the mistakes of the PS4+Vita integration, it could really make a much better well-rounded gaming home console. Allowing the NX to play the entire library of 3DS/New 3DS games will be huge and it would also mean the NX could integrate well with the successor of the New 3DS in 4-5 years from now.


Two words:

Unified

Platform. 

Nobody can support two distinct hardware platforms any longer. Not Nintendo, not Sony. 

N3DS owners are a tiny niche base anyway ... Nintendo always releases a late gen revision for their portables before retiring it ... the N3DS is nothing more than what the DSi/DSi XL was to the DS (and GB Micro before it). If you bought a Nintendo portable that late in the life cycle that's your fault for thinking it'd be supported like a new platform. Sorry, but buyer beware, do 10 minutes of research on the internet next time for anyone who's choked about that.