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teigaga on 27 August 2016
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Barkley said:
teigaga said:

Not for Nintendo, but maybe for people who want a traditional handheld they can put in their pocket. The reality is that the market for such a device is only continuing to shrink. A screen over 6" may mean they initially loose some of their old market but they equally have a lot more to gain by making their closer to a tablet in functionality. That industry is  pushing 200m units a year and is need of diversification, Nintendo can offer this. Annecdotely I feel pretty confident that most kids 8-17 would rather have a tablet, then a 3DS. Beyond that the hybrid premise is essentially Nintendo's future, 

A year or 2 down the line Nintendo would certainly be able to offer a more portable version of the NX, but I'm hoping for an 8" screen personally, I also think it makes better business sense for them.

A handheld console that large would lose a lot of their current market, an 8" screen would make it bigger than a 10" tablet, buttons, analogs etc add a lot onto the size.

Nintendo will keep it small, or lose the vast majority of their current handheld userbase. Only the hardcore will remain. The home console side of the NX would have to drive all the sales to keep that machine alive.

A 6.2" or god forbid an EIGHT INCH MONSTROSITY, has no mass market appeal. It would be the end.

We really have no info to make such assumptions. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen someone out in public with their 3DS this year. If we then take into account the amount those people who had a bag they could comfortably put it in, then the number is even more irrelevant.

Also I think a bigger tablet functioning device is far more likely to attract people outside of their core audience, then a traditional clamshell handheld. For this we do have evidence. Again the tablet market sold 200m devices last year versus like 11m dedicated gaming devices (3DS+Vita) being sold. Both Nintendo's biggest successes (DS+Wii) saw them appeal outside their hardcore audience.