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freebs2 on 20 March 2016
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spemanig said:
freebs2 said:

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.

The NXDS won't be going for low spec components, because it has to be able to play NX home console games. It won't be using basically 2006 level tech like the 3DS currently is, so it won't be $112. It'll be much more. Even after the first major price cut with low-spec hardware, the 3DS was $170 in its first year. There's no way the NXDS will be cheaper than that at launch.

Restricting local multiplayer to if 3 players each had a $200+ device would fail miserably. Of course the host has to provide the controllers. A touch screen controller needs much less to be funtional, so it can be much cheaper, especially since it doesn't have to beef up the hardware after a generation like a handheld does.

I'm not suggesting Nintendo shold go with an handheld/controller solution. What I'm suggesting is multiple screened controllers aren't a viable solution unless they can also act as the NX handheld - but that would mean, as you suggest, crippling the hardware.

So the best solution probably is to give up the idea of multiple screened controllers.

Anyway, regardless of the specs, the NX handheld will fail miserably if they sell it for more than 199$.