How credible is this site? I've never heard of them before, and their poor drawings certainly don't help things lel.

As for the size they're touting, it is quite close to the 3DS XL which has dimensions of 156 mm wide x 93 mm high x 22 mm thick, but even without controllers attached it's still significantly wider, probably too much so to fit in your pocket, and definitely too much with the controllers attached. The reason for that extra width despite the same height and thickness can only be that 6.2 inch screen. It alone is almost the size of a 3DS XL, so they gotta increase how wide it is so there's space for the buttons. I strongly believe such a screen size isn't worth the loss of portability, so I'm hoping this isn't true.

How credible is this site? I've never heard of them before, and their poor drawings certainly don't help things lel.

As for the size they're touting, it is quite close to the 3DS XL which has dimensions of 156 mm wide x 93 mm high x 22 mm thick, but even without controllers attached it's still significantly wider, probably too much so to fit in your pocket, and definitely too much with the controllers attached. The reason for that extra width despite the same height and thickness can only be that 6.2 inch screen. It alone is almost the size of a 3DS XL, so they gotta increase how wide it is so there's space for the buttons. I strongly believe such a screen size isn't worth the loss of portability, so I'm hoping this isn't true.

If the rumors are true, then that loss of portability would need to happen.

Lets play Videogames is a fairly new site and it's run by the former destructoid UK team, so these are legit journalists. They formed lpvg when Destructoid decided to axe the UK devision because of budget cuts.

As for the dimensions, keeping in mind that this is allegedly a dev kit, the screen would either have to be almost feakishly long at about 80x180 - 190 mm for them to make sense or if it had WiiU dimensions (inkeeping with earlier rumors) be 80x140mm and have around 3 cm of unused space on each side on the screen.

This seems very wierd to me. Also according to this, at least the dev kit is bigger than the WiiU gamepad (ecept in height) and would be very elongated.

How credible is this site? I've never heard of them before, and their poor drawings certainly don't help things lel.

As for the size they're touting, it is quite close to the 3DS XL which has dimensions of 156 mm wide x 93 mm high x 22 mm thick, but even without controllers attached it's still significantly wider, probably too much so to fit in your pocket, and definitely too much with the controllers attached. The reason for that extra width despite the same height and thickness can only be that 6.2 inch screen. It alone is almost the size of a 3DS XL, so they gotta increase how wide it is so there's space for the buttons. I strongly believe such a screen size isn't worth the loss of portability, so I'm hoping this isn't true.

In my opinion, something in the 5" range would be better.

Why?

Oh yeah you're right, no way they'll use a freakishly long screen, and there should be no reason for the NX minus detachable controllers to be bigger than it's screen, certainly not according to the images they drew. Could mean they just made up the dimensions without checking if they were logical, but also could just mean the dev kit is wider for some reason, but then what did they base their drawing off of? Something doesn't add up here!

You guys need to give it up with a "pocket" thing. This is not designed to go into your pocket. If you want that, that's what a 3DS is for, which Nintendo is supporting until 2018.

This is a tablet sized device and it has to be tablet sized.

A Tegra X1 would melt the inside of a 3DS in two hours or kill the battery in the same time, which ever comes first. This system was always going to be in the same ball park size wise as the Wii U tablet.

Modern thermals demand it, it's a simple as that. The chip needs room to dissipate heat, also if you want battery life longer than 90 minutes, you need a very large battery here, 8000 MaH probably minimum, 10,000 MaH more likely. The battery alone could be the size of a 3DS XL.