The only question I could see in a hybrid market is the pricing. Usually home console games go from 49-60€, while handheld titles go from 39-45€. I suppose Nintendo won't try to make their handheld crowd suddenly pay 20€ more per game, so they either sell all their titles at handheld price, or they price every game differently (which would be great for new IPs or smaller titles, specially if they put them around 30€).

1. "Removing bottlenecks" - bottlenecks are usually the type of things that if you don't have enough power they limit your system, but the difference to "just enough" could be quite marginal cost vs. a large benefit you gain. The performance gains, when bottlenecks are in the system are not linear/scale evenly by percentage. I am sure you know all of this.

An example in PC gaming:

Notice the marginal differences in computing frequency and/or threads lead to a significant stability in frame-time for the Witcher 3 and then after that it is flat, and before that it slopes somewhat linearly. If you have a 1.3 GHZ 4 threaded CPU you will see gains by increasing that to 1.5 GHZ (+15%), but after that you see no gains. That is what I meant by, 10-15% could be enough to resolve cpu bottlenecks in certain applications.

2. Most advances in CPU IPC from generation to generation (for the same clock-speed) today are quite miniscule. Look at Haswell Refresh -> Skylake. That is what I meant by 10-15% as quite significant.

3. Possibly since they are going to finally ditch the old GameCube architecture they will make wiser decisions this time around. They could increase performance even if they go with AMD. There are low-profile GPU chips that will let them match XBO/PS4 performance for a pricepoint of $300, without leaving their power consumption requirements, and I am sure there will be more options for when they manufacture such a console (probably won't come until the end of 2016/early 2017.)

Like I've said before, Nintendo fans I think have it completely backwards in terms of where the power of the hardware split should be.

The PORTABLE should be the focus of the hardware design and it should be the focus of getting the most possible power in there.

THAT will get third parties to sit up and take notice, not a 3-years-too-late-PS4-wannabe console with no userbase. Third parties saw that console already, it's called the Wii U, and this time Nintendo is not coming off a 100 million userbase either. Third parties are not going to care about a Nintendo console if that's the focus of the NX. 

If Nintendo fans were upset with the third party support the Wii U got early on, don't expect much better for the NX if the console is the focus.

The handheld being a new type of powerful device though (which I do think is legitimately possible given the massive advances in mobile tech happening today) ... that's a game changer for Nintendo, because Nintendo portables actually sell and third parties I think wouldn't mind at all having ports on say the 3DS if they 3DS wasn't three freaking generations behind the engines third parties work on.

I'm sure Capcom would like Resident Evil 7/RE2 Remake to be on a Nintendo portable if they system could run it. Ditto for Square-Enix, probably would want Kingdom Hearts III, Final Fantasy VII Remake, etc. to join Dragon Quest XI. 

That's why I really think Nintendo should aim for a hardware spec that allows for PS4/XB1 ports on the handheld with some reduced effects at a lower resolution (960x540 res is 1/4 of 1080P).

The Tegra X1 by the way, Nvidia's top of the line mobile processor, just got announced a few days ago as being the GPU that's going to be in Google's new Android tablet. Nvidia has the Tegra X1, PowerVR is giving Apple the mega-powerful A9X processor ... AMD should be able to give Nintendo something comparable/better next year at 14nm.

I have no way of knowing until I see it. If it's something really fun looking or unique (in a good way) I'll definitely be getting it regardless of power.

If NX is a portable, it will have around 200-300 gflops, wich is one third to one half of wii u's power and will probably have a foldable screen and release for $199. If it's a home console, it will be much more powerfull than ps4, possibly between 4 and 5.4 tflops and release for $299 unless it has some revolutionary technology like the wii. In the later case, it can be a little/moderately more powerfull than ps4. But basically there's 0,0001% chances wii u's successor will be LESS powerfull than ps4. It would be counterproductive manufacturing wise, not to mention nintendo will make a machine that's at least ready for a standard of 1080p 60fps.

People saying wii u's sucessor will be weaker than ps4 and even x1 are outright trolling or delusional.

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hahahaha you're so delusional it's hilarious.

OK idiot, let's take a look at your numbers, ps3 + xbox360 = 170m consoles sold BUT at lest 30m must have broken due to red and yellow lights of death, so we get 140m BUT some people own both consoles, so we end up with around 120m individual buyers.

Now, the generation before had GC + ps2 + xbox at around 205 million consoles sold. considering people that owned two or three consoles that was probably around 185-190 individial buyers.

So, 190 - 120 = 70. Where are those gamers? ON THE WII. add 100m wiis to the 120m ps360s and we get 220m, wich gets closer to 200m after considering people that own 2 or 3 consoles.

The obvious conslusions to anyone with half a brain:

1. The wii was bought and played by the same usual gamer audience of children, teenagers and young adults, with the difference being that older adults and old people also enjoyd the system... IN THE SAME HOUSE. families tend to live together and only buy one console for the house, so the wii was enjoyed by the parents, kids and grandparents, with only a small number of homes that never owned a video game system buying one for the first time with the wii.

2. You're incredibly delusional.

Continuing.

"And on top of that it'll be 3-4 years late meaning it has really no chance of being anything but a (distant) third place console for the duration of the remaining generation before its thunder is stolen by the XB2/PS5"

hahaha, whatever wii u successor is, it will be either one year EARLY or with the timing as usual AS THE FIRST 9TH GEN CONSOLE. And it will most likely be much more powerfull than the ps4. just keep your delusions to yourself.

keep dreaming, troll. wii u is much more powerfull than ps360 and your whining will never change that.

"Wii U is estimated at 350 GFLOPS"

in your dreams.

"so 700 GFLOPS with 3-4GB of RAM for games would be OK"

that would be a slightly stronger wii u and NO, it would not be enough for 1080p on wii u games, let alone games with better graphics.

"Nintendo has painted themselves into a corner where they have more or less abandoned the sector of the video game market that consistently buys high volumes of video games and video game consoles"

you're a cheap troll, try harder than that.