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Ck1x on 18 April 2016
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Soundwave said:
wombat123 said:

I could see that working.  And the amount of Nintendo coins (or whatever Nintendo compensates users for letting their SCD be used in the cloud) that could be earned could rise or fall depending on which generation of the SCD you have (as they'd keep on upgrading it over the years to keep up with the competition).  Like if you have a gen3 SCD, you'd get 3 Nintendo coins per hour of use, 2 for a gen2 SCD and 1 for a gen1.  And then as time goes on, older models could be completely phased out and no longer accepted into the Nintendo cloud.  It would essentially keep Nintendo users in the Nintendo ecosystem by not having them continusously have to start their library from scratch each gen and Nintendo would just have to worry about making games.

They might as well embrace something like this. The traditional hardware model doesn't work for Nintendo anymore, really with the exception of a few year fad with motion gaming every one of their consoles has been selling worse for 30 years now. 

They need a way to basically minimize the hardware and make it a non-factor, so that you can get an NX at varying cost/form factors, it upgrades and is open ended as a platform so the Sonys/MS' can't take advantage of it by releaseing newer/better hardware, etc. It should be easy for third parties to program for and unify the Nintendo library. 

If they can do all that with NX they'll basically have addressed their core deficiencies from a hardware POV at least. 

I remember when the early NX rumors started to surface there was talk that within Nintendo they felt that this was their most forward thinking system to date. As these patents come to light, I'm starting to believe that they are seriously onto something! Imagine having a couple of these devices and they essentially pay for a major portion of the games you buy simply by allowing them to be used.

I think many on the web are just focused on the base console specs alone, when they should really ask themselves how would an extremely large peer-to-peer networking of these devices across the world change how we view an online service. E3 can't come fast enough!