100% this. Nintendo never should've announced the NX, people are way too worried about it. I don't think they had a choice though with the mobile announcement or else the rumors of going full mobile would've been more damaging.

You guys are forgetting how the NX was announced. Its actually very normalfor companies to start developing a system not long after launching their current console. The NX's announcement wasn't to build hype but to assure fans and investors that they were not abandoning the console market to make mobile phone games. I firmly believe that the system wouldn't even have been announced yet if not for the mobile thing. It's announcement was purely political.

Yeah iagree with you.

The acceptance and backing of forum-goers. Because that means the world to Nintendo.

I think they should have specified future dedicated gaming platform and nothing more. By giving it a name, they made it feel imminent causing all this speculation as well as fear amongst current Wii U owners and potential buyers. As someone who was certain to buy a Wii U this year, I will instead wait to see how things play out

As far as I understand it, NX is just the development codename, like Wii U was Project Cafe and Wii was Revolution.

The longer they wait, the better hardware they could have put in the box. But you can be waiting infinitely for that.

Get an updated AMD APU similiar to X1 but with the newer CPU cores (Puma+ cores, 2 iterations after Jaguar), enable the 2 disabled compute units, clock CPU at 1.8GHz, GPU at 850MHz. Then give it 8GB of good quality DDR4, the price will still be cheaper than PS4 or X1 memory (accounting for expensive eSRAM) and will fall hugely over the coming years.

All that then need be done is have a dev-friendly API and every PS4/X1 game will be ported easily to it.

Let the Ninty first party devs do their thing! Easy.

The existence of NX was made clear to relieve any fears that Nintendo was going to abandon the dedicated console market when they announced their partnership with DeNA.

I think they would have liked to kept their mouth shut until next year if they could.

They should have just not fucked up the Wii U so bad and supported the Wii until 2013, which is when the Wii U should of released (alongside the competitors). It could still have the tablet controller, but they should have made it more powerful to better match its competitors. Now I feel like Nintendo will release their consoles mid-generation everytime now. And the Wii could have sold 10 million more if they had continued support.

one of the things they need to do it right, using DENA as a unified account system. Those VC games people who bought on Wii U (i doubt games bought in Wii VC), should be part of the digital move to NX platforms. why, this would help fans to be happy and they have those games and doesn't need to buy it again. Unless Nintendo is all about greed.

backward compatibility would be there is a form of digital games, Not sure on Wii U discs if Nintendo really wanted to use x86 architecture. emulation on discs would make it time consuming to develop i guess.

i'm still on the 2017 NX release date rather than 2016. we need to find out 2016 game lineup besides the few titles we knew. E3 is mentioned as transformation, is this a first phase of moving into what. are there any cryptic details behind this 'transformation' in a sense. gamers need games, and 3rd party jumped off the Wii U and that is a consensus, so NX should have 3rd party.

do it right and an early start, but Nintendo should have deals with 3rd party devs behind the scenes. If the NX games at launch is similar to the Wii U but couldn't add 3rd party devs current games, just ports of 6 month of games then it would really be just a Wii U situation all over again.