just curious, where do you find time to play handheld gaming when outside of the house?

typically when im not home im doing things that dont allow me to game like driving, working, running errands, shopping, outdoor activities, or im with other people.

The thing that scares me right, the specs, the screen, resolution, size everything seems... "OK"
You can argue the PSVita looks allright (screen etc) but its a very old device, the NX will look better but.... lets be honest the gaming industry is an always evolving business.

With a product that seems ok, it might look very outdated 2-3 years from now, when a console lifecycle is "generally" bigger then that. Especially on the home-console department.

As a portable its definitely acceptable, the DS and 3DS where not technical marvels either, but as a hybrid/also TV portpose I don't like it. Adding the possible low battery live and an active cooler??? would make it quite bad as a portable for me too...

Overall I am sceptical and if these specs are true, Nintendo really really needs to sell it to me because its not a slam-him, I don't really like it based on the rumours.

Yeah... the mobile market is just advancing SO quickly...

You can get a phone for $300 with a 1080p screen, 3gb ram, 32gb storage, an almost 0.5TF GPU and no doubt much better battery life. It's so hard for a dedicated gaming handheld to compete... That phone I just listed specs for is the Mi5 and it came out back in february... it practically matches what we know of the NX's supposed specs already whilst beating it on screen and battery. By the time the NX is out this device will no doubt be replaced by a new model.

How many times do you really see people playing a 3DS or PSVita in a public scene, most people play them at home, sometimes children play them in the car. I have see people use them in the airplane, and on vacation but overall if you are not living in an Asian country, the chances are slim, most people play on their phones!

And people decide what people do, when your friends play a game on their phone, others will also do it, etc... etc... and if the rumours are true the size/battery life and the fact you have detatchable controllers (clunky) making it an even harder sell as a dedicated portable.

This really seems like its made to do everything everywhere but doesn't really focus enough on home console or portable to really shine in either department, lets hope the rumours are only part of the story, they need to make a good product. I want to fall in love with a Nintendo console, its been a while (Gamecube).

Worst case scenario they release a $179 NX lite a ear or 2 years down the road. Theres no competition in the handheld and those who are unsatified with the tablet form factor will surely come back in a second.

Usually when I am going downtown and taking the bus. Downtown is a bitch to drive in and the parking is retarded and expensive so I generally play it on the way there. Or when I take my family shopping and my mom and sister takes hours to look at clothes.

Well, they needed that resolution for VR Porn... didn't the S7 also include a Gear VR?

It did if you pre-ordered it. I missed the boat on that one tho since Galaxy S4 still worked and then 2 months later, it died. At least I saved $200 from its pre-order price when I got it from Ebay. I would have gone into a contract if Canada's carriers weren't such whores. My current plan which I had since my Galaxy S1 has 6gb of data which costs me $60 a month but if I were to get that exact same plan as a new plan, it costs $125 per month. But they were like, you gotta get a new plan dude otherwise, you will be paying only $150 less than the unlocked version. So I was like fuck that and since paying $150 more won't lock me into a contract and give me the international version + let me keep my current plan. 

So yea, my s7 is the first phone that I bought fully unlocked and have not regretted a single thing. Yea there are the cheaper phones like OnePlus 3 and etc but you get what you paid for since S7's Amoled screen is rape and the water-resistance will protect it from teh fap times.

A little off topic. Games likes battlefield won't be coming to NX. So actually NX version plays battlefield at 0 fps where it's playable in Xbox One. As for raw power; it's not bad for a handheld. But in today's market challenge will be to convince customers.

I don't think a smartphone will be beating a Tegra X2 any time soon.

That chip is a beast and is too powerful to fit inside in a smartphone form factor without melting the inside after an hour or two.

On top of that, no smartphone game maker makes games for the upper specs. Yes a Samsung Galaxy S7 or Apple 6S have a much better processor than a Sony Vita for example, but you don't see many games that look better than Vita stuff, because smartphone games have to work with older phone versions to get a big audience.

On NX, developers will be able to focus everything on maximizing that Tegra chip, so the games you're going to get are simply going to look a lot better than the smartphone you have likely for several years.

A Tegra X2 hypothetically by the way is like 16x the power of a Vita chip. I wouldn't be surprised either if Nintendo adopts a different business model where like tablets they update the hardware. Maybe not on a yearly basis, but every 2-3 years. It would be fair since they're combined both hardware lines into one that they can have more hardware models of that said one hardware.