| JWeinCom said: The 3DS needs a replacement. It's time. Calling it NX and giving it a big library of HD games is not something you can mock without looking foolish, though, good try. The ability for the portable to act as a second controller is a bonus and not a selling point for the Wii U. I understand there is an issue with buying games over again though. Not for me because I'm digital but alas you have made a good point. Nah. I totally can. Because for a company to tie the future of its most successful division to its weakest product in its history would be financial suicide. You don't want people thinking of this thing as a portable Wii U if the Wii U has the stench of failure all over it. Nintendo's handheld division is still successful. Making it an extension of their failing home console would be a really bad idea.
There is no way giving it the Wii U's library would be a successful strategy. Not only can you not have disc based backwards compatibility, but you can't do it digitally either. If you want Bayonetta 1 and 2, that's 32 GB. Xenoblade on its own is 25. It's like 10GB just for the data packs. Even something like Mario Kart is about 5GB.
Flash based memory is expensive. Even expensive higher end tablets generally have 64 GB or so. Even 128 GB would be an incredibly small size if this thing is going to run Wii U games.
So, that eliminates the advantage of backwards compatibility altogether. And, it also means no backwards compatibility for 3DS games. If you're Nintendo, do you want to have backwards compatibility with a successful system, or a not successful one?
And, unless they're going to use identical architecture, they're going to have a really rough time getting the games on the portable. And if they're using identical architeture, and this thing is going to be cross compatible with the NX home version, then that means they're running Power PC which would be like Sony using the cell for a PS4. Kiss third party support goodbye.
So, yeah. I can totally mock the idea, cause it is just not a good one.
As for the rest of it, I seriously doubt your market research. I'm not going to argue about hypotheticals, so I'll just say I disagree and leave it there.
As for my vision of the NX, I don't really know. And I'm just going to wait and see.
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You are right that they don't want any comparison to Wii U. I hope that the name NX will be enough to move away from the stigma of Wii U. As for storage for the portable games. You are on point there. 128 GB would be adequate for causal needs though.
Saying that PPC is to x86, as cell is to x86 is so far off that I have to question your knowledge of computer architecture. PPC is not a hinderance in a market dominated by x86. It's so comparable that there is almost no reason to bother. It will not be the difference between 3rds and no 3rds.
