Eurogamer: Nintendo NX is a portable console with detachable controllers (It also connects to your TV, and runs cartridges)

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se7en7thre3 said:

JEMC said:

The article is very straighforward about that. The portable is the "brain", where the processor and main components are, and the base station does nothing but connect the portable to the TV and probably also charging the portable.

I know that having extra hardware to make the device more powerful sounds great, but having two sets of hardware creates lots of other problems that make it impractical.

A simpler option would be to "unlock" the full power of the processor when the device is docked. When using the NX as a handheld, the processor would be limited to a certain performance in order to make battery life acceptable but, with the device put in the dock with no power restrictions and probably a better cooling solution, the processor could be used at full speed, increasing the performance.

Doesn't that overly elaborate description of "brain" seem strange?  I wouldn't have read into it that deep otherwise.  But of course, lets not forget the SCD tech, which is what the NX dock can serve as (along with HDD etc).

What makes more sense is no "dock"  at all, but lets say, a marriage of portable and stationary- independent HW but can work in tandem (nx would act as a controller).

In PC hardware, the CPU is usually called the Brain of the computer. Eurogamer is just using that term with a console's processor, there's nothing suspicious about that.

And Nintendo also has patents about holographic storage, among other very different patents that have filed during the years. Just because a patent has been filed, it doesn't mean that it will used soon.