| nomad said: I'd expect the handheld NX to be closer to WiiU than X1. The whole dock boosting graphics thing is an impractical idea, assuming you guys are talking about another chipset in there. There's a problem of scaling and cost, it's not efficient. Nintendo might as well just release a more powerful home console that play the same games + handheld connectivity. If you want performance boost, it'd be easier and cheaper to have a dock with a fan to cool the handheld. That way it could run at full power with out overheating and throttling. For example, the SoC would be limited to 5w for handheld, then run at 10W with proper cooling from a dock. |
Problem I don't think people really want to buy a seperate console version of a portable chip without the portability (see also: PSVita TV, I know Vita sold bad enough, but VitaTV sold far worse).
Even with the GameCube and Wii U which were hugely more powerful than the GBA and 3DS, most Nintendo fans chose to only buy the handheld, by like an 80% margin at that.
Although inefficiencies are sure to arise, I think the dock idea is better than putting a seperate console out. People will also look at it and say "wait so I need to spend $500 or both the handheld and console just for Nintendo games?". That's usually where that sales pitch falls apart. I think such a device would sell maybe 10-15 million units and then fizzle out.
I think one major thing that Nintendo fans on the internet tend to be clueless about in terms of "regular" Nintendo buyers (let alone Playstation/XBox buyers) is that they *don't like* buying two Nintendo systems. It's not a bonus for most people. Wii only got away with it because it had the a miracle controller craze and even then Wii still was way outsold by the DS.
I think getting the two chips to work together might be a challenge, but I don't think the cost would be. If it was like literally a second version of the same SoC, likely Nintendo would get a very sweet price for on it, because the more you order of the same part, generally speaking the cheaper it gets, so they'd be using the same chip in their NX mobile console and SCD dock ... that's a pretty easy way to control cost.
