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Soundwave on 04 October 2016
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Barkley said:
Soundwave said:

The NX is almost certainly going to have a larger battery than your phone. Because it has to have one to run that Tegra X1 chip, that means for whatever non-gaming tasks it does, the battery life for *that* should actually be pretty good. 

720p I think is a smarter resolution choice for that screen size. Higher would just needlessly drain the battery. 

Most people don't take pictures with their tablet, so I don't think that's a big issue with the NX (the camera). 

The rumoured NX just doesn't appeal to the Tablet Marke, no 720p is not fine for this market. It's fine for a handheld gaming device, but not a tablet. Camera IS a big deal on Tablets. Basically everything other than gaming is bad, the tablet market will stick with casually playing angry birds and candy crush when they feel the need to game. Most people who own a tablet spend the vast majority of their time on it performing NON-GAMING activities, the one area the NX has an advantage in.

Tablet Gaming is niche.

Depends on what you consider niche. I'm in airports due to my job all the time, and I constantly see kids, even in the same family with multiple tablets playing games. 

Like on a flight two weeks ago, I was in an airport with two kids playing some first-person-shooter on their tablet. 

I see virtually zero 3DS or Vita. Kids are definitely playing on these devices, they're even playing more than just "Candy Crush" on them from what I'm seeing. I'm guessing Nintendo did extensive research on kids and probably realized the same thing. 

If the NX was $500 like an iPad is then yes, I would agree 720p is too low, for a device that's likely going to be $250-$300 max and can double as a home console and play "real" Nintendo games on top of potentially doing "tablet stuff", to me that's a fair sized bargain actually. 

Beyond that I think even though I certainly wouldn't mind some traditional "Nintendo PS4" console, I think Nintendo fucked themselves this gen by giving Sony such a head start. They needed to compete head on in 2011/12, now it's too late for this cycle. 

Sony is not going to be beaten now, not with like a bloody 50+ million unit lead, trying to compete directly now will go worse for Nintendo than the GameCube did (Sony was only 20 million ahead then). It's too late for that type of device. They either need to make a console that's Scorpio+ (Playstation 5) in power now or go this route, going the middle route is akin to walking in the middle of the high way -- you're going to get run over.