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If 100 usd equals about 35 euro maybe, because 100 euro for a converter would be insane.



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Nuvendil said:
archer9234 said:
LipeJJ said:
No and no. And just imagine playing 280p games on a big OLED screen... Jesus!

I do it all the time with the GB Player lol. Don't really care.


Key difference being that the GB line was all pixel art, 2D graphics, not 3D graphics which are hit a lot harder when your resolution is crappy.

I still play my N64, PS1/2 games etc. on my HDTV. I guess I just accept the game is gonna look bad. And never have that problem I see people complain about. Not being able to look at SD material again. There's some good though. The N64/GC/and NES are getting HDMI mods from people. Which will stop the composite/RGB/SCART limitations of the output picture. And no, this is real HDMI. It's not Composite to HDMI adapter. A video decoder board is connected to the consoles PPU/CPU directly. There is no interaction with the analog output anymore. So the consoles will get a real digital signal.



I don't think anyone would want that.



    

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Jumpin said:
If 100 usd equals about 35 euro maybe, because 100 euro for a converter would be insane.

What currency converter are you using? $100 = 86 Euros, although something which costs $100 in America would cost 100 Euros in Europe. 



    

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Jumpin said:
If 100 usd equals about 35 euro maybe, because 100 euro for a converter would be insane.


It wouldn't be a convertor, it would be a full stand alone console.



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Soundwave said:

No for the reason that 3DS games would look horrific on a large TV display, they're already fairly grating these days on a 5-inch display I can't really imagine it going well on a 50-inch display.

If there was a way to run the games at 720p or 1080p then yes absolutely. Monster Hunter 3U on the Wii U looks great and that's basically just a 3DS game running at 1080p.

Next-gen when the handheld is capable of HD graphics or something in line with the Wii U -- that's a different story.

To be honest going back and even playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 again on the Wii U was a bit of a rude awakening ... SD really looks terrible on HDTV sets. Thank god the Wii era is over, HD is soooooo damn nice on Nintendo titles. 


I think its safe to assume that under the purported Fusion concept, Nintendo wouldn't simply go for a gameboy player type home solution, to make it a unique and more lucrative option it would have to be  stronger chips than whats inside the HH.  So even if HH is launched first, the home version specs will most likely be locked in far before its launch, and IMO games would be designed on the higher end so it could be scaled down properly for the HH.  I assume Nintendo will not have a disc reader for Fusion, so I wonder how much juice can they pack in their "microconsole".  



se7en7thre3 said:
Soundwave said:

No for the reason that 3DS games would look horrific on a large TV display, they're already fairly grating these days on a 5-inch display I can't really imagine it going well on a 50-inch display.

If there was a way to run the games at 720p or 1080p then yes absolutely. Monster Hunter 3U on the Wii U looks great and that's basically just a 3DS game running at 1080p.

Next-gen when the handheld is capable of HD graphics or something in line with the Wii U -- that's a different story.

To be honest going back and even playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 again on the Wii U was a bit of a rude awakening ... SD really looks terrible on HDTV sets. Thank god the Wii era is over, HD is soooooo damn nice on Nintendo titles. 


I think its safe to assume that under the purported Fusion concept, Nintendo wouldn't simply go for a gameboy player type home solution, to make it a unique and more lucrative option it would have to be  stronger chips than whats inside the HH.  So even if HH is launched first, the home version specs will most likely be locked in far before its launch, and IMO games would be designed on the higher end so it could be scaled down properly for the HH.  I assume Nintendo will not have a disc reader for Fusion, so I wonder how much juice can they pack in their "microconsole".  

Say buh bye to the disc drive. 

It's unneccessary, backwards compatibility hasn't done sh*t for the Wii U either and it actually makes Nintendo more money to charge you again to re-buy back catalog titles rather than just letting you replay your 5-8 year old discs. 

The next wave of Nintendo's 3DS style cartridges will likely go up to as high as 32GB anyway, which is the same size as a Blu-Ray disc. 

The Wii U disc drive is horrid too, thing is ridiculously loud, it sounds like its having a seizure anytime Bayonetta 1 has a cutscene for instance. Nintendo never wanted to use optical discs in the first place, now they can finally be rid of them for good. 



3DS games on TV.. o.O



i remember when i played my gameboy games on tv with a super game boy.
i couldnt buy a gameboy and it didnt need batteries. and the resolution wasnt that bad compared to snes.
So, was ok. I lost all link cable battles with friends.

Now i think is totally different. Street pass is one of the concepts of 3DS, the resolution is also a problem...
But now you can play online, 3D is viable on tvs too.

Why not?



Soundwave said:

Say buh bye to the disc drive. 

It's unneccessary, backwards compatibility hasn't done sh*t for the Wii U either and it actually makes Nintendo more money to charge you again to re-buy back catalog titles rather than just letting you replay your 5-8 year old discs. 

The next wave of Nintendo's 3DS style cartridges will likely go up to as high as 32GB anyway, which is the same size as a Blu-Ray disc. 

The Wii U disc drive is horrid too, thing is ridiculously loud, it sounds like its having a seizure anytime Bayonetta 1 has a cutscene for instance. Nintendo never wanted to use optical discs in the first place, now they can finally be rid of them for good. 


If anything is going, it's the cartridges, not the disk drive. The HH will be digital only while the console may have two variations; one with and one without a disk drive and more mamory.

Backwards compatability is going no where. Nintendo does not make more money from charging you to rebuy the same game. They waste recources remaking the same VC games over and over, and have you pay a repurchasing fee to cover that cost. On top of that, third parties have to remake each title again, wasting the same recources that could be used adding more games to the VC.

Nintendo all but confirmed BC on the next systems with its statement on consumer connections through a platform instead of hardware, where they specifically mention BC.