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

[GhaudePhaede010]

Einsam_Delphin said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

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.

 

So what's your definition of a home console then since NX apparently doesn't fulfil it? Please don't say graphics/power/etc.

A console who's primary/main design (technical, aesthetic, and functional) is to be played at home. Like Wii U, which nobody calls a hand held or hybrid, because the console's main function and design is to be played in the home.

As it looks (based on these rumors), NX is designed (technically, aesthetically, and functionally) to be a hand held. The NX looks, by all accounts, to be the continuation of the 3DS line.

I tried to explain it like this to the host of my show:

Me: Imagine everything about NX is true. Everything except that it has a shell that connects it to a television. What would you call it?

Him: Well, thats unfair because it does come with a shell that attaches it to a television.

Me: Just answer.

Him: A hand held.

Me: You brought up a good point about it coming with a shell. It is unfair of me to remove a key piece entirely to prove my point so what about this: Nintendo releases the console as I stated and then a year later they release the shell that attaches the console to the television. Is the console now a hybrid?

Him: No. It is a hand held; one that now has an attachment that connects to the television, but it is still a hand held.

Me: Exactly.

That is NX.