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Soundwave on 26 August 2016
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curl-6 said:
Soundwave said:

Well Nikkei has been pretty much mostly correct every time they've reported something on Nintendo. They said Android apps on NX ... I think that's legit and gonna happen. 

Not just for functionality sake but because there's money Nintendo can make from having their own eShop distribute Android apps. 30% cut of each app's revenue adds up. 

Even today ... the 3DS XL, which is the 3DS model that's overwhelmingly the one people buy, is $200 ... you can get an XBox One with Quantum Break + Alan Wake + 500GB HDD right now for $50 more, lol. 

I can't see Nintendo making a full-blown multimedia device that's competitive as a tablet, that's just not their style.

And $50 is a big enough gap to be a distinction, which is why if the baseline price for a PS4/Xbone in 2017 is $300, NX needs to be $250 or less.

Making mobile apps is not Nintendo's style either ... Nintendo is going to be forced to make some changes if they want to survive in the mobile world. Either they convince kids to stop playing mobile games and go back to their DSes, or they accomodate the modern reality of how kids play. 

I think they made the decision for number 2, and made that decision probably a couple of years ago. And I think that was a hard decision for Nintendo to make, but they realized they could not compete against mobile. The move to make mobile games and the start of the NX hardware project likely occured at around the same time. 

PS4/XB1 are not portable, I think you just need to lose the idea that Nintendo is competing with them. I think they're honestly more worried about other tablet makers ripping off the ideas the NX will have at this stage, they've conceded the traditional home market to Sony/MS entirely, I don't think they care about that. 

There are still costs to a portable device, just because it's portable and has "less powah!" doesn't mean it costs less to make. A LCD + touch panel are more expensive than any processor almost all the time, those batteries don't come for free either.