| eva01beserk said: I belive this. This is always what I thought since they anounce the nx plan of a shared library. a hand held and a console witch use the same games, so the only inovation would be both using the same cartridege, one with better resolution than the other and thats it. all the portable will have is an hdmi cabe to play on the big screen. if the controlers are detachable then it makes sense for there to be a docking station that only charges the deevice and probably a fan to cool it so it can clock a litle higher. For this rumor to be true though, they would need to release the handheld this march as schedule and the home console in the holidays when the 2xps4 gpu would be cheaper, still the weakest of the 3 but enoughf for third partys to port. |
This is a nice fantasy but it won't work in reality.
For a "shared library" to work, the handheld and console are going to have to be close in power.
And portables don't need cables to stream to a TV these days.
People really don't put any thought into the portable at all, this is the problem with the SMD64 crowd, the portable is just "oh we'll just slap something together". No you can't do that. The portable has to be the base for all games if it's a "shared" ecosystem, my guess is Nintendo actually having to do practical real world R&D realized this and from that the hybrid concept took over.
Because if the two devices have to be close in power, then you are really not getting anywhere forcing people to buy a completely seperate console and handheld just to play the same games. You might as well make one device that can play both at home and on the go.
Most Nintendo fans even do not buy the Nintendo console even with its own exclusives (80% of GBA buyers did not buy a GCN, 80% of 3DS owners did not buy a Wii U, Wii got away with it due to the Wiimote craze), so why are they going to now buy a seperate console that has the same games? Very few people aside from the same group of 15 million Nintendo console die-hards will do this (probably even less).
