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Thunderbird77 on 12 January 2016
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bdbdbd said:
Thunderbird77 said:

A platform = a console = single hardware. Nintendo specifically said the NX is a gaming hardware. Sure, the codename could refer to the projects of both the next handheld and home console, wich will still be two products. By optimizing, it's obvious I mean each game would have to be adjusted for the two hardwares. There's no such thing as making a game and magically run it on different systems with a huge power gap, unless it's pushed back by the handheld power.I already explained too much about why the sharing idea doesn't work for every game and wouldn't be smart even if it did, I won't repeat myself.

Nintendo said it's DEDICATED gaming hardware, and described it as platform that will have multiple form factors.

How huge the power gap would be? Bigger than PC/X1? Why does PC games manage to have high settings and low setting. Hardware shares the same architechture, but the hardware specs differ. If we have 7 NX devices with different HW specs, why couldn't the games just have different settings for different graphical fidelity?

NO, nintendo never ever described NX as a platform with multiple form factors. This is factual, just read the official words.

Yes, the power gap will be bigger than x1 and pc, probably a 15x difference. PC games running on different spec ranges certainly gives devs problems to achieve and sometimes the end result isn't amazing. However, there are still minimun requirements for PC games to run, and I don't think there's a 15x+ difference between minimum requirements and what it takes to run the game at max settings.