New Nintendo Patent For Portable NX (?)

[JEMC]

Soundwave said:

JEMC said:

Soundwave said:
I'm kind of the opposite mind.

If the handheld is weak in terms of specs ... people are going to scoff at buying it to play $40 games.

If you want to sell $40 portable games in today's market they better damn well be very high end games in the era of free smartphone games.

I think they need to go upmarket, not with a cheapo handheld. This is a narrow view of thinking.

If cheap handhelds were the answer here, why is the 2DS and cheaper regular 3DS models floundering more or less and not giving the 3DS the boost that it needs sales wise?

Also the unified platform thing doesn't work if the handheld can't run any of the super-awesome console games without having to be completely remade basically because the power gap is so large. That's not a unified platform. That's the same shitty situation they're in now.

Hey! Weren't you the biggest supporter of the theory that NX would be an hybrid device? You can't speculate over a Nintendo handheld now .

 

By the way, guys, when you debate over the specs and prices on Nintendo consoles, you have to remember that the end price of the console not only includes the cost of the parts, but also a part of all the R&D costs that lead to that console.

That's why Nintendo said that they were losing money when the cut the 3DS price from $250 to $170, even thought the cost of the parts were less than that.

I think there could be several models, as in a complete break from the traditional "two models fit all" (hell Nintendo doesn't even do *that* any more, the 3DS has like four different models). 

One of them could be a full on hybrid device that is like a portable console. So yeah, sure I can see that. That doesn't mean they can't release a console only variant for instance. It's like saying Apple can't release an iMac because they make Macbook Pros. 

So you're covering all your bases...

Nintendo will launch the usual two hardwares, maybe *maybe* three, but that's it. Too many hardwares will confuse the audience, and we are used to see two.