In Your Eyes: Has Nintendo Given Up On Home Consoles?

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Soundwave said:

oniyide said:

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. 

Your first sentence tells the whole story. I have been trying to get peopple to understand that the current rumors are saying without saying this is NOT A CREDIBLE HYBRID. It is a hand held that can be connected to the television. There is no rumor that states the shell does anything more than give the hand held a video output to your television. Nothing.

I have been reading and it looks like the term, "hybrid" is being very loosely used. Until there is some sort of further explanation about this shell that the hand held attaches to, what we are talking about is a hand held that has an adapter to the television. Just like my daughter's iphone has a hybrid cable that connects her phone to the television.