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Forums - Nintendo - The NX is confirmed to be a home console. (not that it needed any confirmation)

Random_Matt on 20 June 2015
TheLastStarFighter said:
People can play semantics all they want, but it's pretty clear now that the references to NX, next console and what Metroid Prime 4 would be on are referring to a home console of some kind, and a successor to Wii U .

Part of this is hopefulness, but I honestly think it is going to be something to target the western core gamer and it will involve AMD's SoC news from last year. Iwata saying they need to work better on the West and Miyamoto's comments about core gamers being more dependable lead me to think NX will target this audience . The DeNA initiative on mobile , meanwhile , will target the more casual customer with titles like Pokemon and Animal Crossing . All of these gaming options being connected by Nintendo's new accounts .

And AMD Zen APU released next year with Nintendo discussing NX next year.



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haqqaton on 20 June 2015
zorg1000 said:
haqqaton said:

Why is that a problem?


Because then Nintendo will be two generations (at least) behind the competitors. I expect at least Full HD games this time. PS4 is far stronger than Wii U but it's still a fairly weak machine. Developers are having a hard time programming for PS4 because they need the spend a lot of time and resources optimizing it to get a good framerate. Witcher 3 can barely touch 30fps on PS4 in some areas!

Wii U is strugling to present 720p with good graphics and AA now. For the time being it's acceptable but not beyond 2016. We're living a transition to 2K/4K gaming.  Without a minimun of raw power the console won't see third parties at all. I know that graphics isn't everything - I'm enjoying my Wii U - but consumers can't afford a gaming machine presenting HD (720p) graphics on a Ultra HD world.



Jon-Erich on 20 June 2015
spemanig said:
Jon-Erich said:

But Iwata himself referred to it as a third piller earlier this year. 


No he didn't. That's litarally made up bullshit pulled out of somebody's ass. Iwata never said anything that even remotely implied a "third pillar" approach. That's just people trying to manipulate an easy to understand quote about how the NX isn't mearly a simple upgrade. Which it's not. It's a part of a unified platform. It's not a simple upgrade. It's a complicated upgrade. All he was saying. Nothing, nothing at all, about a "third pillar."

He did say it wasn't meant as a replacement for Wii U or the 3DS. What you're implying is that NX is supposed to replace both of them, which it's not.



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