| spemanig said: It's weird that they're calling it a home gaming system, though. Messaging-wise, I mean. They didn't have to do that, but they did. It's weird. If it's main gimmick is being portable, and being a brand new concept, specifying that it's for the home is counter-intuitive. |
Guess we'll see in a few hours. It's also entirely possible they want the 3DS to keep going for a couple more years. For one they probably still make OK money off the 3DS so why not keep a few extra bucks flowing in, and 3DS is also super cheap so it services the lower end of the market well for Nintendo.
The NX is likely too large, too power hungry (meaning low battery life) and possibly too expensive to be a plausible 3DS replacement at this time. Maybe when they can die shrink it to like 10nm or 7nm in several years a smaller "really portable" form factor will be possible.
Hence they need to make hay with the NX being a "home first" device for a little while at least even if the portable nature of the console is central to its design.
I'm sure they will make a big fuss about being able to move it around the house easily and possibly stream to different devices very easily for example, for whatever reason, even going back to giving the GameCube a handle, Nintendo seems obsessed with the idea of a console that's easy to move around the house.
