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Miyamotoo on 25 September 2015
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spemanig said:
Miyamotoo said:

I don't see any connection between DS device and unifying platform. I dont think we will se DS device again, I think better chances are for Wii U concept, using NX device like Wii U gamepad for playing some games (probably Wii U games) on TV.


The connection is Nintendo and their history of devices with dual screens. If this was Sony making a unified platform, I've be arguing a single screen, because it would make absolutely no sence for Sony to make a dual screen handheld and console at this point. It makes even less sence with Nintendo to do the opposite, since removing the bottom screen from only the handheld when the console still has two screens would make it incompatible with NX, Wii U, DS, and 3DS games for literally no good reason.

Not going to happen. It's already confirmed that there will be both a handheld and a home console, and it's already confirmed that they will be apart of a unified platfrom. It makes no sense, then to have your console be some weird portable hybrid that plays the console games on the TV that you can then take with you away from the screen. Absolutely no chance anything like that is happening. That completely goes against having a unified platform.

What is event the point of having a unified platform when your console is already portable? Why would Nintendo make a device which is capable of having dual screen play, but limit that to only legacy games? Why would Nintendo make a device that forces developers to make every game playable with only only screen, when they are making a device that can support two? Why would any developer create a dual screen game for a system that would primerily be played with one screen? Why would Nintendo make any device that would make a developer question that? Why would Nintendo, then, be making a dual screen device where most of the games would render the bottom screen useless when plugged into a TV, rendering the botton screen a nuisence since it would negatively effect the urganomics of the controller for no reason? What are Nintendo going to do when all NX games are made to use a single screen touch screen that can't be seemlessly emulated on a dual screen TV set up? Are you going to touch the TV screen? Is every game going to be like Kirby Canvas Curse where the same thing is shown on both screens, but since you need to look at the bottom screen to use any touch functionality, you'll just look at the bottom screen the entire time, making plugging into the TV useless? Why would Nintendo waste money producing such an extremely flawed and useless device at all?

No. They'll make both dual screen, just like with this generation, and they'll both talk to each other seemlessly, unlike this generation.

Like I wrote, I don't think we will see DS device again. All points that they completely abandoning Wii and DS concept and making something completely new, Iwata said "brand new concept".