Leaker (Rumor): NX Is Modular, Upgradable, Uses Tegra X1 Successor

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I think it's more significant that Nintendo's full portfolio is now available to the people who actually buy the majority of their hardware -- portable buyers.

Even the DS outsold the Wii by a huge margin, and 3DS vs. Wii U and GBA vs. GCN isn't even close.

Imagine what a game like Splatoon could sell on a much higher userbase. So that's one bonus.

It isn't the be all end all though, it's not like Nintendo is going to sell double the hardware or something.

But it'll help. The modern Nintendo portables are basically consoles too ... GB/GBC/GBA really weren't, Nintendo didn't employ any of their top teams to those systems, on the GBA most games were farmed out, like for instance the Zelda games were made by Capcom, Golden Sun by Camelot, no new Mario game, F-Zero farmed out to nd Cube, etc.

But with the DS, things changed and Nintendo started making core titles for the system from the main EAD teams. So that meant its own Animal Crossing and Mario Kart from EAD and a New 2D Mario adventure. 3DS went even further with its own 3D Mario and Smash Brothers.

So unifying platforms now basically means Nintendo no longer has to support what was effectively becoming 2 consoles and that was a large strain on their resources. They can make 1 3D Mario now for example and the dev team is now free to work on a new IP for instance.

For that reason it's significant and it will boost Nintendo's software output, but I think taking Nintendo to more friendly confines of the portable space is a bigger deal for NX. Home consoles are simply too tough of a market for Nintendo, even with mobie (especially if they're smart and they adopt mobile), Nintendo can have a lot more success with portable devices.