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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)

DanneSandin on 26 July 2016
Soundwave said:
DanneSandin said:

This would fast become the tablet of choice for gamers, and probably kids and families as well.

In a year imagine when Nintendo cut the price down to $250 and throw in some Amiibo ... yeah could see this becoming very popular with kids. 

Gotta have those Android apps though (doesn't need to run Android per se, just the apps, which Nintendo could do with a forked version of Android). 

Yeah, having access to the mobile market is cruical for this to work. Maybe they could work out a deal with Google?

And every year or two they'd come out with a new iteration.... It would print money!



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Soundwave on 26 July 2016

This guy is saying it has two controller units, not sure if they attach together.

Really could be a much more modern version of this:

x1000000000000000 of course. 

That would echo a lot of the DS design principals, because Yamauchi chose 2 screens for it echoing the past Game & Watch line. 



Soundwave on 26 July 2016
DanneSandin said:
Soundwave said:

In a year imagine when Nintendo cut the price down to $250 and throw in some Amiibo ... yeah could see this becoming very popular with kids. 

Gotta have those Android apps though (doesn't need to run Android per se, just the apps, which Nintendo could do with a forked version of Android). 

Yeah, having access to the mobile market is cruical for this to work. Maybe they could work out a deal with Google?

And every year or two they'd come out with a new iteration.... It would print money!

Don't need Google, in fact cutting out Google would be the point, then Nintendo could keep the 30% cut for all app revenue to themselves. 

Amazon does this already with their Kindle devices, Nintendo could do the same. 



alternine on 26 July 2016

I dont understand why Nintendo just cant make a regular console with a regular controller like the NES or SNES... They always have to have some gimmick bullshit.



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Soundwave on 26 July 2016
alternine said:
I dont understand why Nintendo just cant make a regular console with a regular controller like the NES or SNES... They always have to have some gimmick bullshit.

Because Sony and MS weren't flooding the market with their own consoles in the 80s/90s. 



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Soundwave on 26 July 2016
Hiku said:
spemanig said:

It's still confusing to me. Like what's the point of having the controllers detatchable like that?

Right. Why would you want to play it in docked/console mode on the go? Because that's the only situation I can think of where detachable controllers would serve a purpose. When you're at home, you could just pick up a regular controller that came with the system, which you leave at home and only use when you're at home.

I don't like the sound of the details here. A lot of questions and concerns.
Seemingly not as powerful as PS4, so if third parties will want to port their games to it immediatley becomes more questionable.
Or does it get more powerful when it's on dock mode? (GameXplain said something like that.)
What would the battery life for something like this be?
How would it be portable (fit in your pocket) with those detachable controllers?

To play multiplayer games ON the go. That's why detachable controllers make sense. 

This device is likely designed so that you WANT people to gather around it, not to be played alone like a hermit. 

That is right in line with Nintendo's core philosphy about family/friend gaming.

Also it's something that current tablets really can't do ... so it's a nice plus for Nintendo to have (simultaenous multiplayer gaming). 



malistix1985 on 26 July 2016

It really depends, if the console is as powerful as the Nvidia TV, I am not that impressed, altough its decent its just a small step up from Ps3/X360 and a big step away from current gen, sure the portability is nice but in that case it all depends on the price, on a portable anything above $250 would be too much, but I might buy it in the future.

If the console features a new version, more powerful chip, from Nvidia, I don't care how expensive it is, I will buy it.




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Soundwave on 26 July 2016

My guess is it won't be the Tegra X1 chip, but a custom version of the Tegra X2/Parker chip, cut down to about 500-800 GFLOPS or so at 16nm to get better performance per watt.



Soundwave on 26 July 2016
Hiku said:
Soundwave said:

To play multiplayer games ON the go. That's why detachable controllers make sense. 

This device is likely designed so that you WANT people to gather around it, not to be played alone like a hermit. 

That is right in line with Nintendo's core philosphy about family/friend gaming.

Also it's something that current tablets really can't do ... so it's a nice plus for Nintendo to have (simultaenous multiplayer gaming). 

Yeah I was just about to edit that in.
But I don't think there's enough demand for that to warrant the extra clunkieness of the device, and foregoing a traditionmal controller for home console use.
I've certainly never wished that we can both play on the same small screen under the glaring sun where it's hard enough to see what's going on on the screen unless you hold it in a certain position and view it from a certain angle. That's going to be harder for two people viewing it from different viewpioints outdoors.
At which point, I'd rather just play one of the games I have on my phone or 3DS/Vita, because everyone has some sort of device with them for entertainment.

Well I mean maybe the device is not made for you?

I think it probably is primarily targetted to a new generation of kids who consume 90% of their entertainment content on tablets and love to play on them everywhere they go. 

Nintendo bringing their unique brand of multiplayer fun with full games is something no other tablet can have, and I think parents will gladly rather pay $300 for one device that does it all rather than a $400 iPad + $300 game console, or $300 Nintendo console + $200 Nintendo portable. 

Tablet screens are great these days too, I'd think two people not being able to see what's going on is much of an issue. 



Soundwave on 26 July 2016

Really wonder if the Nintendo Versus Line of portables in the past may have been partly an inspiration here ...