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

[MikeRox]

Thunderbird77 said:

MikeRox said:

Indeed this is pretty much exactly what I'm expecting. Whether it's a fully unified platform. Or there is a less powerful handheld but they can share development resources. (1 game works on both form factors) or its all a single spec I don't know.

 

I don't get why people say it's impossible. It's blatantly already happened. Hell even the Super Gameboy is another example of the concept. Even phones and tablets beam from the unit to a TV. Having a dedicated box plugged into your TV would add 100% compatibility for peanuts.

Super gameboy is a snes cartridge with basically ALL of the gameboy's hardware inside and port for gameboy's cartridges. How is that anything like the discussed subject?

 

It was a means to play handheld software on a home console platform. (I.E unified software). Granted its not the exact concept, but it did offer improved visuals in the form of a colour pallette on monochrome software.

 

The fact that you can't envision this type of device is more closed thinking/lack of imagination rather than named up by any technical issues.

 

The Vita came out over 4 years ago and is a generation ahead of Nintendo's current portable. Mobile technology has progressed immensely since then.

 

Yes Nintendo are traditionally conservative on specs on their handheld. But that doesn't mean they have to our will be this time.

However as demonstrated by the super Gameboy in the 90s or far more clearly by the mobile market now with such a varied range of specs and settings, there is nothing stopping Nintendo putting out a less powerful handheld that runs less visually impressive versions and a closer to ps4 spec home console. Then having the game run at the appropriate setting.

 

The main argument really is Nintendo are not able to support 2 separate platforms fully. This has been epitomised by this current gen.

 

Yes Nintendo handled the HD transition better than many, but they also did it 6-7 years later so should have handled it a lot better than they did.