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I GOT IT! Finally figured it out what the Nintendo NX is!

For the lazy, click here to see the video, or read it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErnajiOtSvU

Remember back in the day when Iwata talked about a unified system, handheld and console?

Well, the NX is the next step in handheld, the next Nintendo handheld.

It is also the next console.

So, you buy one game and get to play on the go or at home, does not matter.

A cartridge will reproduce amazing handheld graphics on the tablet controler, which is a standalone handheld, not just a controler.

It also gets extra power from the console brick, which reproduce amazing graphics on TV, Ps4 graphics, which means that all third party the Ps4 has, the NX will also have.

With a twist. Remember Fox Engine? The thing reproduces the same game with levels of details according to the hardware, which is what you get in the NX:

Want to play Modern Warfare on the go? Maybe Fallout 4? It will be the same stuff you play on the TV, you can even multiplayer with people playing on the TV, not a problem whatsoever.

Well, is it revolutionary? 

Profit wise, yes: the cartridges give Nintendo a large profit margin, as they have on 3DS, and the unified system just unifies the crowd they already have.

What does that means?

Well, if the loyal fanbase from 3DS is around 40 million users, you bet Nintendo can count with that for the NX.

Also, at least 5 million more from WiiU users and a large amount of curious gamers interested in the novel concept.

So, if the NX is a total failure, it still has at least 50 million user base. If is a amazing success, well, then the sky is the limit.

It is a stroke of genious.

Now, my personal expeculation:

- I think Nintendo will add as a bonus the NES, SNES, N64 library in a gigantic NX Eshop, maybe even with lower prices than what we see now. They are going for the throat.

Edit: Let´s talk price: as you guys brought it up, there is a lot of hardware involved in this, it is a handheld and some serious extra raw power hooked to the TV.

So I am going to say 399. I know, I know... The PS4 Pro and everything... Well, that could be what is stopping Nintendo from announcing it, but I doubt it. They will probably say: "IT IS TWO IN ONE!" And, in fact, it is. I like it, it is economic, to have a console and and a handhel in the same machine. I like the shared library specially.

So, what do you think?



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.