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Soundwave on 16 April 2016
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zorg1000 said:
spemanig said:

I still have about 10 minutes to go but, um, it's a lot to take in lol I'm not going to lie.

From what's being described, this is pretty monumental. At least, it will be if Nintendo actually implements it and can figure out how to sell it. I described the NX, from what I believe it to be, as revolutionary for consoles, but if Nintendo can sell even 10 million SDCs, this is world changing shit.

But I honestly don't see how they'd market something like this, because it's really just an at-home cloud server. It's really boring stuff for the average consumer, and there's no way they can sell it with the console. It'd be too expendive. This is silly, but it would have to look cool aesthetically, it would definitely need to be supported with My Nintendo, and I dunno it would need something else. Like why would a mom want this? I mean, I want this, but this is extremely expensive and boring tech for the layman.

If the cross compatability of the NX hardware devices are reletively dependant on this thing, that might be how they do it. Like if I'm a dad with three kids, I might buy a NX and three NXDS's, and then by the SCD as a way to unify them or something. I don't know. I'm just spitballing. This is really exciting stuff. But nerd exciting.

EDIT: The reason why I bring up that dependancy is because I've always speculated that the NX would depend heavily on the cloud because things like cross save/buy/play etc, but if they have something like this, so much of that stuff can be handled in an infinitely better way here. Like I never even considered them basically creating their own massive cloud farm. Just insane stuff.

its possible that the portable variant of NX might not be able to handle some of the more power demanding games that the console has and the SCD would allow it to play those games without the need of buying the console to play them. So lets say

NX Console-$299, similar power to XB1/PS4.

NX Portable-$199, similar power to Wii U

SCD-$99, can boost Console performance closer to XB1.5/PS4K & Portable performance closer to Console.

I think though Nintendo will want their 1st party games to be able to run more or less on both the "static" home console(s) and the semi-portable/portable variations. 

Even with third party stuff, that might be Nintendo's ticket to reasonable third party sales, if the portable component(s) can adequetely run higher end third party games, then those games will likely perform better given A) full access to both Nintendo home and portable audiences B) the novelty of being able to play these games on the road gives third party Nintendo ports a tangiable reason to the consumer to choose the Nintendo version. 

So maybe 

NX Console - $299

NX Portable/Semi Portable - $250

SCD - $169.99

I would probably lean a bit more in that direction. That's not bad still though, today to buy a 3DS XL + Wii U will run you $500 ... NX Portable + SCD for instance would be $419 in this scenario ... a decent amount cheaper if like to play Nintendo games at home and on the road. 

I think also this may be why the NX home console appears to be coming out first this fall ... they may have to wait a little bit to get the more powerful type of portable that they want at the price they want, but when they have that powerful portable device it'll make the entire NX ecosystem much more flexible and give developers some real options ... ie: Square-Enix can now make Dragon Quest XI for both the home NX and mobile NX if the mobile part is about 1/4-1/5 the home console.