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Soundwave on 03 December 2015
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SuperNova said:

I've been sort of playing with this idea in my head for months now, that they could have the Handheld and console counterparts of the NX work toghether to give more juice to the games overall, while keeping the price down.
I'm not technically savy enough to know if thats actually possible, so I stayed quiet about it.
The way it worked in my head is, if you take, say, Mario Kart, everyone could bring their portable NX as a controller and have their own screen instead of Splitscreen (even if you might not like that idea :P), the individual handhelds would all hook up toghether to render their own screens in 60 fps and would get additional power from the home console for more graphical flourish. That way the console doesn't need to carry the whole load of rendering the game twice to eight times like the wiiU currently does, whenever streaming o the gamepad. The more Nx handhelds you get toghether with the main console, the stronger it gets.
Problem is, I imagine that's probably pie in the sky talk, and might not even be technically possible. And even if it is, it might be very complicated to program for, like I said I have not idea, as I'm not technically versed enough to know.

Now they come out with this patent, wich, while obviously not the same idea, has similaritys to mine, so I'm highly interested to see where it goes from here.
Nintendo might have reason to be confident with their next console.


Pretty sure it's fairly possible and even easy to do. Dual-linking GPUs in PC rigs has been done for years now and is common practice in the PC scene to get greater performance. 

Effectively the people buying this higher end "supplement hardware" are basically becoming servers for Nintendo. Nintendo can use those devices as a server, and the people who buy them according to this patent would even be rewarded by Nintendo for doing so. 

That's also an interesting part of the patent. So basically the consumers end up buying the server hardware for Nintendo's Cloud network, and Nintendo pays them back with the benefit of having better hardware and giving them free rewards. 

That's ... different and interesting.