Miyamotoo said:
Bofferbrauer said:
Of course a handheld device can be stronger nowadays than NVidia Shield did in 2013. The Snapdragon 820 I used in the comparision is the latest in the line and stronger than a Tegra 4. The difference however is not huge because mobile chips hit a wall in the meantime, risking to become too hot and ARM processors in general quickly rising in energy consumption above 2Ghz. Since 16/14nm + FinFet is already in use in mobile chips I doubt we will see a huge jump in the near future, more like incremental updates.
Wouldn't the size of a Wii U Gamepad not be a bit too much for a dedicated handheld gaming device? I'm not sure I would take something as big (and potentially heavy) casually around with me just to play games. Might just be me though, dunno how other people would feel about this
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Thats a point, device I talking about wouldn't be only handheld dedicated device, it could be used like home console too, so bigger size for device like that (that can be used like handheld and home console) wouldn't be problem.
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I see what you mean. And the Wii U Gamepad was also quite lightweigt and lies good in hand compared to it's size and overall clunkyness. So it might work out, but I would have to see it first before I can totally agree on this. There's too much of a risk in my opinion to make the Padsole (yeah I already give it nicknames XD) too big and/or heavy to stay really useful as a handheld, but Nintendo could potentially pull it off. Guess we'll see what it finally looks like when NX will be oficially revealed.
