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

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. 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 conceeded the traditional home market to Sony/MS entirely, I don't think they care about that. 

Being a hybrid doesn't make you magically immune to comparison with other gaming devices, it means you're competing in two red oceans instead of one.