On the topic of games that scale up or down, it won't be that simple. I think many games will be like Smash 4. The handheld version will have exclusive features and the console version will have exclusive features. That will incentivize people owning both hardware variations.

It obviously won't be the only thing, but it'll be part of the gimmick. Pay once for a game and have two different experiences. Like I said, games like Smash 4 and Hyrule Warriors are merely testing the waters for the future of all Nintendo games.

I can't wait to see Pokemon under this model. It's going to truly be monumental.

yeah, they want to move on. Holograms, mate!

I don't understand why it's so difficult to scale games up and down. PC developers do it all the time, even with completely seperate GPU manufacturers and CPU manufacturers and wildly differing RAM configs. Heck even a smartphone game, if I'm making a smartphone game today I can't just make it work on the iPhone 6 ... it needs to work on previous iPhones, iPod Touches, iPad which has a different screen resolution and more RAM, etc. etc. 

Virtually every development on the planet has to be able to make their game run on a multitude of different hardware, this would just be more of a case of Nintendo catching up to what everyone else has been doing for ages. There's very, very, very few development houses that have the luxury of working on one single platform with one fixed spec and nothing else. 

Smash 4 is exactly an example of something Nintendo would want to get away from ... it's a tremendous development head ache to have to make two different versions of a game, a big waste of resources. 

Also I doubt Nintendo is going to give you two experiences for free out of their goodness of their hearts. 

I think you're taking what I said too literally. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying there's more to it. When I used Smash 4 as an example, I was literally just talking about the exclusive features. So the base game would be just a scaling measure. But then, after that is ironed out, they will add bells and whistles to each version to make them special. Smash Run vs. Smash Party garbage.

That's all I was getting at. Not two different versions. To similar, but not identical versions. And it won't be free. It will be incorperated into the budget of the game. You're acting like those little features revolutionize the games. They aren't massive differences. They're little extras. If anything, it would be purposefully exluding content from specific versions to incentivise owning both.

No, it'll be closer to this:

Free form screens are for QoL.

or that nintendo is jesus, or nintendo NeXt, or its just a working tittle.

We'll have to wait and see I guess. It might be cool looking if the entire underbody of a controller like that was a LCD panel.

1. Not too bothered I don't mind the gamepad.
2. All the better then everyone will have access to the entire library and droughts will be lessened.

That's such a bad idea lol, your hands have to go on the sides so you basically only get the middle of the screen.

In theory it sounds nice but i don't think it would be very pratical as your hands would cover half the controller, thus half the screen.

My idea was more on a free form type of display.
If you look at the pro controller, where it says battery, imagine if that area had a LCD free-form display to show data. I think it would look really nice and sophisticated.