I really don't believe why people are thinking it's VR. Nintendo always focused on cheaper hardware to attend a bigger market. The cheapest VR combo right now is PS4 + PSVR, and that will be close to 700 bucks at launch. VR also lacks maturity and has a massive chance to flop. Even Sony isn't putting all their money on it and have a plan B of pushing 4K + HDR with the Neo.
I'm starting to believe in the unified platform thing. If we look at the new consoles by Sony/MS, it seems like with the right dev tools it isn't hard to support a weaker and a stronger unit at the same time. Nintendo could use a stronger unit (regular PS4 power) as the home console and pair it with a weaker portable console. The only problems I see here are:
- Media: Blu-rays are cheap, but won't work on a portable. Could they use cartridges? The cards used on Vita and 3DS won't fit more than 8GB, so it's a big gap to the 50GB BDs. Maybe it could be digital only.
- Portable hardware: Tegra is weak and is the best we have for mobile. Could they use x86 in a portable? If they want an unified platform, they need similar hardware. I doubt that AMD has a APU that could go portable like that.
Anyway, if they figured it out, it would be a hit. Even if buying both could be a bit expensive, it wouldn't be mandatory, so you could just buy one and get the other some time later. If it is that, I'm buying the portable day 1 and the home unit less than a year later.
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