"Alleged" photo of NX controller "leaked": We might as well discuss this now

[freebs2]

spemanig said:

freebs2 said:

Personally I would love NX to support multiple screened controllers, it would definetly open up a lot of possibilities for local multiplayer. The problem though is still the cost - they can't afford screened controllers if they want to make a mass market accessible console. The only way it could work, imo, is if the standard NX controller is also the NX handheld, but then again this would require the NX handheld to have really low specs, in order to be very very affordable.

A handheld would be way more expensive than a screen cotroller. If they can get the screen controllers down in price, they might be able to do it. The cost is about $112 in Japan, and they can definitely get that cost WAY down just by shrinking the thing a lot. If they can get it down like $30-$40 less at NX launch, I think it would definitely be affordable enough. $75 would be a great place for it to sit at at launch.

Way more you say? The WiiU controller has already most of the components you can find on an handheld: a screen, a battery, a processor (used as a video decoder), a wi-fi module, a charger.

Yes, an handheld would still be more expansive but not way much if you go for low spec components (after all the New 3DS is in the 150$ range, not much more than $112). Normally the owner of the console is the one who buys supplementary controllers in order to let firends play, and this happens beacuse you don't have any incentive to buy a controller if you don't have the console. If you had one hardware that works both as an handheld and a controller, things would be a bit different - multiplayers games like Mario Kart would encourage 'guest' players to buy thier own handheld/controllers. Of course this could work only if, as I said, the handheld is affordable.