The Wii U is sold out all over Japan and Nintendo isn’t talking

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Thunderbird77 said:

Soundwave said:

Trajectory doesn't really mean anything, beyond that Nintendo hasn't had the chip advances available to them in the past that they do today nor was their handheld market ever threatened this much in the past. 

I believe Nintendo too ... NX is going to be something different, probably a new form factor of a device, not simply just DS3/3DS-2 with better graphics. 

It means almost everything. Nintendo can't release a handheld with hardware that doesn't exist yet, or that would cost $299.

Except chips that powerful do exist and have for some time and are already in devices for under $300. The Nvidia Tegra X1 is in their Shield console and sold at a large profit for $200, the Apple A9X which is probably even more powerful is estimated to cost $35 a pop. 

Nintendo doesn't need a fat profit margin on their hardware nor do they need to use a 2K resolution screen or something crazy on their model. It's very feasible.

Beyond that, even at $250 lets say ... what is a better value ... spending $300+$200 on a Wii U + 3DS XL ($500, so cheap right?) or getting a hybrid device that can play ALL the games on the go and on the TV for half the price and perhaps run Android apps and do other things too. 

Spending a bit more on the hardware so that it's powerful enough to be a competent console as well as a portable wouldn't be such a bad play for Nintendo, the value proposition destroys the failed model they're using now.