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teigaga on 05 October 2016
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bigtakilla said:
teigaga said:

Neither are flaws

No.3 essentially means that third parties will fail on the home console, since the console itself would barely sell. One of the main arguments for the NX not being a hybrid is that it'd be a weak home console and not recieve any/a lot of third party support. 

No.4 is trivial but is still relevant to Nintendo's profit margins. Instead of trying to optimise for 2 vastly different spec ranges, why not just have one system with a slightly overclocked mode for 1080p resolution and slightly prettier graphics? Either way they'd likely work from the weakest benchmark up, meaning that the 2TFLOP home console's power won't really go to full use. It just begs the question of why Nintendo should even bother. Its just another reason why one hybrid system makes more financial sense for Nintendo then 2 seperate systems. 

I'm not strongly against a standalone handhled & console each with different specs, but the person I was responding was suggesting that that it makes a lot more sense than a legit hybrid. It doesn't. 

How can you say third parties will fail on the home console, when the exact same game (minus a few effects that simply will be bypassed on the handheld, and will render at a lower resolution) will be on handheld. The point is third parties won't have to choose what they're developing for anymore. The same cart used for home console can also be put into the handheld. 

Breaking that barrier is what Nintendo needs to do. Not force people to buy expensive hardware for features they don't want.

This has really yet to be seen & is extremely optimistic. We don't even know if the NX CPU will be 1/8th of the current hardware games are being developed for, it will not be as simple as scaling the resolution and some VFX.  We don't know what exact specs the NX is running so I can't completely shit on the idea but if we use the X1 Shield as a benchmark, its simply not realistic to think porting down to the NX home console will be a simple task when the only ports the X1 shield console recieved to show of its strength were last gen games, even then the Shield is a console without battery concerns, the NX will be a handheld and battery life will put some constraints on how much power it can use on the go. 

I don't believe many developers outside of Activision and EA with their generic franchsies (Fifa etc) will bother porting down to the NX. Either it would end up delaying a lot of games or they'll release the NX version later. Even then you're expecting people to buy 2 seperate consoles or you're expecting them to settle of inferior handheld versions of big budget cinematic AAA games, I don't see either happening.