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Soundwave on 28 June 2016
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:

You never know with Nintendo, 1GB for the OS would leave 3GB for the games, even in that case, it's a nice sized upgrade over the Wii U. 

It's quite possible whatever new "gimmick" they have will swallow up a good chunk of the hardware budget too. I just can't really envision a simple plastic controller radically altering the market again, they'll need something bigger than that. 

If they relly want XB1/PS4 ports (and I think they want because they know they can't have successful console without 3rd party), they need at least power of XB1. Wii U had 1GB RAM reserved for OS, so we can assume that NX will have at least 1.5GB for OS, and 2.5GB RAM is definatly too low for easy XB1/PS4 ports and most likly 900/1080p resolution.

I dont think they will go for expensive gimmick again after Wii U. In 2017. they can easily have console with some kind of gimmick, power of at least XB1 (most likly around PS4) with price point of $299 and to have profit on each sold unit.

I've lowered my expectations for Nintendo hardware, the Wii U could've had a much, much better GPU and they chose something relatively weak then too. 

I'd be OK with 1 TFLOP + 4-5GB of RAM, I don't think third parties are going to sell a lot of games on the NX anyway. Hardware power is only about half the equation, the other half is Nintendo doesn't have any of the demographics that buy the bigger selling third party software, and somehow I doubt the Grand Theft Auto or Madden NFL crowd is going to make a Nintendo system flooded with Disney-styled cartoony mascot games and Amiibo toys their go to system.