the eurogamer Nintendo NX is here

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JWeinCom said:

Barkley said:

Because we live in the age of smartphones, the DS wouldn't have been the success it was if it was released just a few years later. The DS appealed to non-gamers, but the tablets and smart phones have the demographic that the DS managed to capture covered now. Good luck coming up with a NEW gimmick that appeals to the mainstream, even if managed it would be copied onto IOS/Android devices within a very limited time span.

Whether they do it as a tablet, hybrid, or dediccated handheld, they run into the same problem.  Making it tablet shaped isn't going to magically make it sell better, and it drives them into competition with competing devices.  Making a tablet that could hook up to a TV isn't anything special.  Tablets can do that, and the technology will imrpove.

They need a selling point (aka gimmick) for this thing either way. Making it a tablet doesn't solve that problem.

I think they have several selling points there but execution is key. Just compare Wii motion+ to Playstation Move. Released close to each other, same premise but one is a success (albeit short lived), the other was dead on arrival. Imagine Pokemon Go wasn't pokemon but instead unbranded, ugly monsters. Would it have blew up? 

Plenty of tablets failed before iPad set the precident, similarly I wouldn't compare a tablet that can hook up to the TV to play angry birds (or whatever is the most popular on the appstore right now) to one that could do the same and play 4 player Mario Kart.

And again this would be Nintendo attempting to expand their audience, its not abandoning the core userbase and relying soley on non gamers. Regardless of its form factor NX is probably going to have the best handheld launch lineup Nintendo have ever had. I mean just look at Zelda... Aside from fears of its size, Nintendo would be making a monster of a portable gaming machine going by the rumours.