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Soundwave on 09 August 2016
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oniyide said:
zorg1000 said:

Note that i used the word: GAMEPLAY.

In terms of gameplay there is nothing about the Witcher or Fallout that couldnt work on a handheld form factor.

Besides, i was talking about Nintendo's games. There is really no game style that cant work on a handheld. 

fair enough, that has been the case for a while, but for alot of people it will always be seen as a inferior version. They could make a Fallout spinoff but it wouldnt be THE Fallout.

Ninty hasnt really pushed the power thing for some time but yea there games are about the same now.

I think they need to have two power modes or this thing isn't credibly a hybrid it's simply just a portable. 

It should be able to run 400-500 GFLOPS in portable (battery power) mode and 800GF-1TFLOP in home mode with active cooling. 

For portable play IMO people will be willing to settle for a low resolution (960x540) and even a reduction in asset quality, it's not such a big deal, but when its playing a home it should be able to run games on par with an XB1. 

Then it becomes a situation where some people will not care about a small difference in pixel quality because the NX version has greater utility (being able to be played anywhere, anytime). 

For it to be a true hybrid device it must have two power modes though IMO. Otherwise it's just a portable with a TV output mode, that's really not a hybrid console in my opinion. If you put a video out on a Vita that doesn't make it a console. It also would be dissapointing from an engineering POV, a true hybrid console that can operate in different power states depending on whether it's being used a portable device or a home device has a lot of potential, Nintendo is lazy if they'd don't exploit that.