Nintendo's next gen portable won't be "portable SD games" anyway ... the next portable will be able to display graphics equal to the Wii U most likely (or close enough). It will require large dev resources. 

What? How do u figure 4 years for HAL? Rainbow Curse released 13 months after Triple Deluxe.

ND Cube release Mario Party 9 in March 2012 followed by Wii Party U in Oct 2013, that's 19 months.

Stop being ignorant, literally every team I listed saw no noticeable slow down with transitioning from SD to HD, ur once again making things up to support ur argument. Act like an adult and admit ur wrong or just stop posting.

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Unless this portable costs $299 at launch, that won't happen.

And they respond with "screw you, we can do the same for Sony and actually MAKE money"

If this is real rip Nintendo

Why not? Mobile hardware is becoming cheaper and more powerful every day. If the Vita could handle specs between PS2-PS3, why wouldn't a NX handheld be able to perform 360-WiiU levels of power, when it's been five years of non-stop mobile developement?

Also, a handheld with that performance levels would be a wet dream for a lot of eastern developers. The japanese market loves JRPG, and they love handhed, so why not make games for a system that will sell no matter what (Pokemon and other Nintendo franchises)? You could bring to that machine lots of old and new games, from PS3, to Vita to adapted versions of PS4 or PC titles... Most JRPGs aren't that power-demanding compared to western monsters like Fallout or GTA, so power wouldn't be that big of an issue.

What do you mean by 360-WiiU levels? 360 isn't at wii u level. A new portable for $199 in 2016 can totally be stronger than a ps3 or x360 but still visibly bellow Wii U. It could render downgraded wii u graphics at 540p and very downgraded wii u graphics at 720p. We have to thank the mobile boom for that. If it wasn't for the heavy demand of mobile hardware of the past years, the natural progression of portable specs would make the 3ds successor slightly weaker than a ps3 or x360.

With 360-WiiU levels I meant some power between those two systems.

In that case it's just like I said, somewhere in between. The other guy was acting like a handheld could easily produce wii u levvel visuals in 2016. That's not possible without a very high price or loss on hardware sold.

I don't know that much about developing any kind of software, but wouldn't the smaller screen of the handheld help in that regard? With a smaller screen comes less need for graphical fidelity because there's less space to put things on. I don't know if a handheld machine could reach WiiU levels of processing power without the need to display graphics as good as the HC version, but wouldn't that be a decent compromise? WiiU levels of processing power with graphics slightly better than the Vita? It would help games to function on both systems (on console they run better and more detailed because they have stronger hardware, on handhelds they need less power to display weaker graphics), and as long as the gameplay isn't compromise...