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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)

Frogger on 26 July 2016
WagnerPaiva said:
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.

Your PSP wasn't technically on par with the parellel consoles of that generation.



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tpjp on 26 July 2016

This comes to mind after reading the OP. It's a neat design choice for a console imo, best of both worlds.



jason1637 on 26 July 2016
josh261995 said:
So how long do people think the 3ds has left?

8 months



Uabit on 26 July 2016

Rest in pieces NX.



Airaku on 26 July 2016

I doubt it's true. Nintendo seemed pretty clear that it was a home console. This sounds like a portable Wii U and not much more powerful either. This poses more problems than they currently have. It also doesn't line up with other rumors.... unless there is more to it that will blow us away.

Could this just be a handheld companion to the actual console and they will reveal them at the same time? Maybe even push up the handhelds release and release it first? There's a lot of things they can do with this, but it's not going to satisfy a lot of fans or gamers if this is marketed as a console.




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WagnerPaiva on 26 July 2016
spemanig said:
WagnerPaiva said:
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.

Your PSP wasn't technically on par with the parellel consoles of that generation.

True, it wasn´t. But still, sounds to me that this is not as revolutionary as Myamoto made it sound, don´t you think?

As a money making idea, it sure is, it reduce the costs of having two different divisions (handheld and console) and it maximize the software avaliability I guess, as they can get away with a lot by saying so and so games are for the On-the-go part, like, shovelware that costs peanuts to make will be plenty.



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Intrinsic on 26 July 2016
JWeinCom said:
Ljink96 said:

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.

They don't? How do you come abiut that? Sony has more published IPs than nintendo. And moat of them do veey well. Regardless, that's a big "if" you are using to push ur theory; cause Sony doesmt have "only" naughty dog. I'm not saying that with what Sony has and if that was all that was on their platform they would fare much better than the wiiU, cause I've always believed that a platform without third-party (aka all the games possible) is DOA. 

anyways, my biggest concern here is that Nintendo is still trying to go for this mystical casual core. The people that play on phones and tablets. Rather than them make a full blooded home console and compete in that space and expand from there.  They are putting too much faith in an extremely fickle crowd. And trying to compete in a segment that is saturated with too many really cheap and more versatile products. 



Proxy-Pie on 26 July 2016
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.

This. I just can't fathom how Nintendo would make a 250$ handheld-thing, after seeing how terrible the 3DS launch was. If this is all true, I expect a major decline in total sales, which is a damn shame because they could've gone about this in another way and still did decently well...



SJReiter on 26 July 2016
CGI-Quality said:

I've seen quite a few "bad idea" posts but only one in-depth explanation as to why someone doesn't see this as a good thing. What's the major drawback, here (besides JWein)?

I assume because people want a high powered home console and don't really care about having a powerful handheld that can connect to a TV. 



Frogger on 26 July 2016
WagnerPaiva said:
spemanig said:

Your PSP wasn't technically on par with the parellel consoles of that generation.

True, it wasn´t. But still, sounds to me that this is not as revolutionary as Myamoto made it sound, don´t you think?

As a money making idea, it sure is, it reduce the costs of having two different divisions (handheld and console) and it maximize the software avaliability I guess, as they can get away with a lot by saying so and so games are for the On-the-go part, like, shovelware that costs peanuts to make will be plenty.

I mean, I definitely don't see Sony or MS copying something like this, no.

But who knows. What we're not getting from Eurogamer is how this thing looks or how they'll market this thing. It could be really big.

Doesn't sound like it to me, though.