What's also a win win for both Nintendo and AMD, is I actually think these SCD devices could be sold fairly cheap. Imagine each unit coming with an APU/GPU, 2GB Ram (offering say 1Tflop of additional processing power) for $100. At this power output, not only would they still be pretty energy efficient, but you can just daisy chain more devices for additional power.

Many people are excited about graphical features only, but imagine the possibilities that the added CPU power would do for physics and animations. Not to mention talk about an added path for AMD to sell more of its chips.

IF this is true and IF they are actually using Polaris 14 nm (which is cheap) and is averaged at 2.5 teraflops. Putting these two combined... the Neo PS4 is spanked hard out the door and will look out dated. I can easily believe the Polaris stuff, but this is... is hard to pull off. You'd need a fairly good internet connection to be able to tap to people P2P and use that power. Easily native 4k ready. The Neo PS4, looking at it's specs, is upscaled to 4k.I don't know, this shit is OP if true. I think we should reserve judgment until it's revealed. A LOT of people will be disappointed if it's not and if it is. The online will be free and I can see why they will reward players. It will be more akin to Raptor and AMD's reward system. Don't get to hyped, or you may be let down, but if this is true and Nintendo owns the patent. Microsoft and Sony will need to do something fast to adapt. This will cannibalize a lot of their market and the power sluts are going to convert so fast.

They wouldn't even need to do that much. The way the patent describes it, it's the network that gives you the power, not just the SCD hardware. If they sell a lot of these things, they wouldn't even need to upgrade the hardware - the network would vastly eclipse any hardware easily.

Like imagine this thing became a massive success and sold like 20m or something. Words cannot describe how powerful of a network that would be.

Graphics architecture aside, but I think a wide spread peer to peer network could be the only way to successfully push a heavy cloud structured environment. Where server farms fail is due to them being heavily centralized in a given area and distance starts to play a factor in bandwidth. But if processed data has a very short distance to go for processing and receiving, should free up bandwidth tremendously. 

I'm just excited to see how this is all presented, because if done right everyone that has ever wanted the entry price of gaming to drastically be reduced. This thing could be very good!

I agree. I am very curious and I hope it works out the way it seems to do so. However the notion of local processing and receiving data is a very bad idea. You can't rely on multiple people in a household, or even a neighbour to have a NX. So that would mean Nintendo would be selling multiple supplemental devices to single owners. I don't see this working well. As for P2P online, this may very well be a hit. Something that could cause Nintendo to gain serious market share and potentially cause them to become the dominate force of the gaming industry. At least in theory, should this be true and work the way we seems to be speculating.

It's things like these patents that keeps me on the edge of my seat waiting for more. Nintendo knows they are teasing us and it painful but I can only hope it will be worth it. They have a lot riding on this machine.

My guess is that they will want to push the SCD out as a perk for joining their network or maybe even offer some kind of bundle or rebate with the base unit. People in this day and age love to believe that the money they are spending now, will have added benefits to earn more in the future. I don't think Nintendo would rely on these devices solely to establish a network for NX, I just see it as a spring board to jump out further than what they ever had before in offering a free online service.

Believe me as excited as I am to see if this will unfold how we all are discussing it right now. I know full well that there's a perfect world scenario and then there's reality and reality is saying in theory this is plausible, but it needs time to be established. People shouldn't worry so much about bandwidth all to much, as technology advances so does lossless compression techniques and it is one of the reasons why streaming quality has gone way up in such a short time.

Nintendo will suck up the powers of all nearby PS4's and Xbox Ones and turn it into pure phazon energy.

Nintendo's new patent is the same with Razor Stealth Blade, you know

Wouldn't really surprise me if PS4K uses Polaris too.

They're all working with AMD, it's not like AMD is going to keep one part of their tech secret from other parties, it's going to eventually all be the same shit that these companies are using.