Fan made NX concept (New 3D render)

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zorg1000 said:

LipeJJ said:

Interesting, but wouldn't it be underpowered in this case? If it was easy to build a decently strong console like that, I don't think MS would have opted for a big one like XB1, for example.

Well power and size aren't really directly related, PS4 is quite a bit smaller than XB1 yet more powerful. Also there is the Nvidia Shield TV which is more powerful than Wii U despite being much smaller and using Mobile chips.

Also I don't really think Nintendo has any desire to compete directly with PS4/XB1 so power isn't a massive issue, NX just needs to run modern engines like Unity & Unreal 4 while being easy to port games to.

I don't think they will try to surpass PS4/XB1 in power either, but in 2016 it's expected that a new console is at least similar to XB1's power level. Like you said, it needs to run modern engines and make up for good and easy ports. If it's considerably weaker tho, devs will probably not take their time to develop a somewhat different version just for it... this already happened before.

Anyway, this is my opinion, but maybe Nintendo will do something entirely different than what we expect. After all, it's Nintendo we're talking about.