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Soundwave on 20 March 2016
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freebs2 said:
spemanig said:

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 launch it for more than 199$.

I think a hybrid machine at the center of it all is their best bet. 

A traditional portable will likely fail in the long run too ... it's not "cheap" enough to compete with tablets which are less than $200 and have free games. 

There's no point in trying to win on "cheap". The Vita is $200 too, it's not as if its sales exploded through the roof, the 3DS bombed at $250 because Nintendo had mediocre hardware for that price and no games to play.