Nintendo NX is a portable console with detachable controllers
It also connects to your TV, and runs cartridges.
"Nintendo's upcoming NX will be a portable, handheld console with detachable controllers, a number of sources have confirmed to Eurogamer.
On the move, NX will function as a high-powered handheld console with its own display. So far so normal - but here's the twist: we've heard the screen is bookended by two controller sections on either side, which can be attached or detached as required.
Then, when you get home, the system can connect to your TV for gaming on the big screen.
A base unit, or dock station, is used to connect the brain of the NX - within the controller - to display on your TV.
For more on the console's power, Digital Foundry has a deep-dive look at the chip Nintendo has chosen as the centrepiece of NX, according to numerous well-placed sources: Nvidia's powerful Tegra mobile processor.
NX will use game cartridges as its choice of physical media, multiple sources have also told us."
Read the rest on Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-26-nx-is-a-portable-console-with-detachable-controllers
EDIT: "Due to the radical change in hardware design and internal technology, we've been told by one source that there are no plans for backwards compatibility."
Great. Nintendo will again ask people to rebuy their older games when they finally port them to that system. How many times have they asked their fans to buy a Super Mario or Zelda games yet again over the course of their history? -___-
It's more than due time that console makers embrace the way Steam is doing things. You buy a license for a game, and it can run on any future PC you buy. Instead of making you buy the games for every single piece of hardware you get down the line, or keep 27 systems, scattered everywhere in your home... Oh well. We'll see how they handle that. But I am keeping my Wii U for retro gaming, that's for sure.
