JEMC said:
Yes, and we've seen how developers respond to that attitude.
The problem with that is the enclosure. You simply can't have a fully cased device like a handheld, smartphone or tablet and, just by having it plugget to the wall, make the chip inside run at full speed because it will overheat. Even with a fan in the dock to cool down the device, it would end overheating. Of course, you could add a fan to the NX itself but, in my personal opinion, that would be a disaster in terms of design. |
I kinda wonder if the NX 'dock' has the fan and the unit somehow plugs into that and pushes cool air into the design in "dock mode" (no fan for portable mode). The dock itself seems kinda odd, because why not just have the NX stream to a HDMI dongle like Google does or basically the just the technology Nintendo already made for Wii U in reverse. I think there's something going on with that dock.
The Tegra X1 is already in a mini-console casing anyway which does have a fan though it rarely uses it ...
If Nintendo made a full console version of the NX, of course it would have a fan.