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Forums - Gaming - Eurogamer: Nintendo NX is a portable console with detachable controllers (It also connects to your TV, and runs cartridges)

Vini256 on 26 July 2016

If this is true, it's the closest we'll ever get to having a mainline Pokémon game playable on a TV, so count me in lol. I really hope Nintendo knows what they're doing this time, another flop would break my heart =/



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josh261995 on 26 July 2016

So how long do people think the 3ds has left?



BlkPaladin on 26 July 2016
Hiku said:
spurgeonryan said:
Game boy color sized cartridges?

Says 32GB.
Gameboy Color cartridges were 8MB.

Sounds like you're refering to the picture though.
That's obviously not a leak of how it's going to loom, or they would have specified it as news. It's photoshop a mockup.

I think they were talking about the mock up's physical size, not the amount of memory. If it has carts, I'm guessing they will be about the 3DS size in volume.



Frogger on 26 July 2016
Vini256 said:
If this is true, it's the closest we'll ever get to having a mainline Pokémon game playable on a TV, so count me in lol. I really hope Nintendo knows what they're doing this time, another flop would break my heart =/

Way to find the greatest silver lining ever with this one. Pokemon on an XBO-level console is a dream until Gamefreak's ineptitude eventually mucks it up.

Let's not focus on that last bit, though.



JWeinCom on 26 July 2016
Ljink96 said:
JWeinCom said:

Core Nintendo fans are the ones who bought the Wii U.  If you hadn't noticed, there aren't that many of them.  And those core Nintendo fans would have bought a pure handheld or a pure console. Probably both.

What exactly does this offer the casual gamer?  Why would mom and dad pay 250 for something to play during roadtrips when tablets run as low as 50 dollars?  $250 is not cheap for a handheld.  

Fans can try to defend this, but it's just not a good idea.  It fixes very few of the problems the Wii U had.  Hopefully, Eurogamer is completely wrong about this, or explained it in an awful way.

To be fair, 10+ million core Nintendo fans is nothing to sneeze at. If only Naughty Dog supported PS, I'm sure the PS4 would do the same numbers.

THAT BEING SAID, I agree with everything else you said. This simply isn't a good idea.

Nah.  If the PS4 had the same third pary support as Wii U, and only Naughty Dog, they'd be lucky to get to five million. They just don't have the output or as big franchises.



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LudicrousSpeed on 26 July 2016

This sounds terrible.



Frogger on 26 July 2016
josh261995 said:
So how long do people think the 3ds has left?

Last year.



Intrinsic on 26 July 2016
Nuvendil said:

Well Nintendo has also sold almost 60mil 3DSs so there's that crowd.  So this machine could very well see success in the tens of millions, 50+ mil with ease and potentially far more.  But the question is whether they would GAIN anyone or just merge their secure handheld and console audiences while sacrificing any double-dipping sales.

I think nintendo still lives in a bubble. I fear some of its fans do too.....

I really hope this strategy works out for them but i just dont know. You can buy an amazon fire tablet for as little as $50. I have friends with kids that have found it more effective getting their kids a tablet which ipems them up to netflix, tons of free android games, YouTube and they can even Skype with said kids through it.  for a parent, their is way more value in a $50 tablet than there is in a $200-$250 console for their kids. And that is something Nintendo is going to have to overcome. 

Forget the core crowd, I doubt Nintendo still believes they have much of that left. 

This is one of those things that sound really good on paper but in reality I fear not so much. But we will see I guess. 



WagnerPaiva on 26 July 2016

This thread is gigantic. However, I agree with all the comments that say it is weird that Nintendo delayed announcements because they feared that competition would copy their oh-so novel concept.
What is so new about a handheld that plugs into tv? My PSP does that via a acessory, I am sure the Vita can do it too somehow.
Do not get me wrong, the idea is cool, but not revolutionary at all.



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.

jason1637 on 26 July 2016
JWeinCom said:
jason1637 said:

That was just PR talk.

Nintendo isnt going for the core crowd. Core Nintendo fans will buy the console regardless if it has good Nintendo games. It seems their trying to get the casual market that went over to tablets. If Nintendo can get this console at a $250 price point it would be cheap enough for a mom dad to see that it has kid friendly games and it coulod be played in road trips while they can watch their netflix on TV.

Core Nintendo fans are the ones who bought the Wii U.  If you hadn't noticed, there aren't that many of them.  And those core Nintendo fans would have bought a pure handheld or a pure console. Probably both.

What exactly does this offer the casual gamer?  Why would mom and dad pay 250 for something to play during roadtrips when tablets run as low as 50 dollars?  $250 is not cheap for a handheld.  

Fans can try to defend this, but it's just not a good idea.  It fixes very few of the problems the Wii U had.  Hopefully, Eurogamer is completely wrong about this, or explained it in an awful way.

This is safer for Nintendo. By the time the NX launches the PS4 will be around 55-60ml and the xb1 will be around 30ml.  It would be hard for Nintendo to come into this console race with a brand new console when the other consolkes have a large userbase already and the PSNEO/Scorpio will out peform the NX. This would be another Wii U situation all over again. Nintendo going pushing portability while still giving the fans the home console experience is very smart buisness wise. Imagine the next Pokemon coming to the NX and you can still play it outside and come home hook it up to your TV and play it online with HD graphics.

Also a $50 tablet wont give you the high quality Nintendo experience a $250 console will.