Nintendo Patent For Supplemental Computing Device Granted

[Soundwave]

TheLastStarFighter said:

Soundwave said:

The chipset for the NX likely is not costing Nintendo all that much.

It's possible the SCD could simply just be a second SoC (system on chip) with everything else stripped out and could be sold for like $130-$150 extra for those who want it.

I think we see multiple options for the SCD.  The Tablet will be the basic system.  But the SCD could offer options of more processing, a harddrive and more RAM.  Based on the patent above, I expect there will be an option for that + it will link to a home controler (s).   Just insert your tablet and play.

But there will probably be an option that only connects you to a TV.

I think keeping it simple would be the best way to go. 

Also the patent says the SCD shares the power supply unit of the base console, so it's probably not going to be wild with like 800 different things. 

Just an extra SoC alone (that consumes say 10-20 extra watts) would be fine. 

Maaaaybe a few years down the line they could replace the initial SCD unit with a 4K SCD as Tegra X3/X4 or whatever comes along. 

It's needs to be fairly simple for the consumer to understand. Buy the SCD dock and you get full 1080P XB1/PS4 type graphics on your home TV. There simple enough. Regular people don't understand things like FLOPS and you don't want them thinking about things like RAM count or whether or not game X/Y/Z runs well on Dock Version 1.48 when they have Dock 1.3.