3DS backwardscompatibility on NX?
Also, I imagine they want to be able to keep at least one of their producs going in case the NX fails. I makes sense not to put all of your eggs in one basket.

It's not normal for Nintendo, when have they ever done this before? I know they didn't with Wii or DS, and those are their two most successful systems ever.

Nintendo didn't even support the Wii after it's successor launched...... It is NOT normal for Nintendo. They do not support their systems after the release of a successor.

Even when that successor has B/C with the previous console and sells a horrifically low amout whilst the predecessor sold an insanely high amount. If Nintendo were ever going to support a System after the release of it's sucessor it would have been the Wii.

100 Million + Sold, Games would work on the new system, New system selling terribly. Still didn't support previous console.

I think it's fairly obvious that the NX is not a conventional "portable". It won't fit in your pocket and it won't be super cheap.

For people who want those attributes, Nintendo is keeping the 3DS around.

Maybe when 7nm manufacturing is a thing, Nvidia can make a pocket size version of the NX, but that's likely a long wait ... probably 2018 or 2019 until that is feasible.

So for people saying "b ... bu ... but NX can't be so big and it can't cost more than $200 because those are the rules" ... well here are the new rules. 3DS will accomodate the lower end of the market for a while longer. 

Just made me want a 3DS even more. This Christmas I think is finally the time.

Also, they really Vita'd the WiiU by porting a load of games across, lol.

Yeah I see what you're trying to do here.

If you want to continue this discussion then respond to my last comment on the matter, otherwise I'll do the same as you did.

This isn't your thread bro. 

This is basically what I said yesterday, and it lines up pretty much 100%. 3DS needs to be kept around because the NX is not 3DS-2. Simple as that. 

It's impossible to have the form factor of a 3DS and likely even the price range of the 3DS with what Nintendo wants to do with the NX. Again, simple as that. 

When 10nm or 7nm processors are available and cheap to mass produce, then it's something Nintendo can revisit (a smaller NX), but that won't be an option really until 2018 or so. A 16nm Tegra processor will which is about the best Nintendo can get today will melt the inside of a 3DS and would kill the battery in 50-60 minutes (which ever comes first). 

Black2/White2 came out a year after the 3DS launched. But GameFreak sometimes do their thing without Nintendo.

It's strange to me because the NX might be competing with the 3DS in its first year... unless the NX is a normal home console. I'm confused.

Eh, nothing really changed. It's easy and cheap support to keep customers happy while they move support over to the new platform. I'm not saying it isn't welcome but it's not a sign that a new hybrid or handheld isn't far off.

Also if NX isn't a hybrid and is simply there home console then I'm afraid it will bomb. Like it's going to sell worse than WiiU. Most people see WiiU's library as weak and with 3DS getting even more WiiU games why would you go out and buy the next home console when the next handheld will have most of the same games and more.

I so hope everything about the NX that you state as fact becomes wrong, it would be absolutely hillarious. xD