Pretty sure the general consensus was 176 GFLOPS for Wii U, a few people were pushing the 350 GF thing but it was on some dubious reasoning. 

XBox 360 is 250, but Wii U having more modern architecture and double the RAM can explain why in practise some Wii U games look a little better than the 360's best.

If it can run Android apps I think it would pretty much blow any $250-$300 tablet out of the water.

My phone has better (non-gaming) specs than an NX and I paid $120 for it a year ago. Sure it blows tablets out of the water when it comes to games, but there are specs that matter for more than that to the tablet crowd.

Resolution, Battery Life, Camera, Build Quality.

Though if it can run Android apps it will be pirated day one, reducing software profits and probably turning off Third Parties from putting their major releases on the NX. Though the third parties probably won't need that excuse.

The Market that wants a large portable device for AAA games is NICHE.

Your phone doesn't have a better spec than a Pascal-based Nvidia Tegra. That chip would melt the inside of your phone in an hour running at full tilt. For a mobile chip it doesn't get much better than Tegra X1, especially if they are using a new Pascal version of it. 

Nintendo can use their own custom OS and make piracy a lot tougher, but have Android app ability, or even just have a setup where by Android apps can basically be "converted" to use on the NX with a short verification process. That would allow Nintendo to have hundreds of apps very quickly. There are many ways to do it. 

We don't really know what the market for a device like this is in part because there's never been a device like this. That said we know for sure tablets outsell gaming handhelds by a large margin, and we know Nintendo portables outsell their consoles by a large margin. 

If Nintendo's strategy was based on drawing people away from the PS4 they'd fail just as the Gamecube and Xbox failed to draw people away from the PS2.

The NX arriving now (instead of 2019) means it has to differentiate from the competition, not try and replace it. If the PS4 looks a compelling purchase at the moment I'm willing to bet th reveal of the NX won't change that. Fundamentally I expect them to deliver different experiences.

Yeah I agree, they missed the bus this generation if the point was to compete with the PS4. Way too late for that now, they kinda have no choice but to do some wacky/crazy thing now. 

Notice how I said non-gaming. I'm referring to things like Resolution, Battery Life, Camera and interfacing with other devices, things the Tablet Crowd actually care about.

The NX will be 720p, my Phone is 1080p.

The NX battery life will probably be naff.

The NX camera will almost certainly be naff, compared to my phones 13mp.

As for the Android route, the WiiU is completely hacked open, you need nothing but an SD card and an internet connection and any idiot can play homebrew and pirated games on the machine. That's Nintendo's OWN OS. Now android is potentially the most modifiable, hackable and easily piratable OS on the planet, If Nintendo can't develop a Secure OS themselves then making a version of Android that is secure is absolutely impossible for them.

Thats point, NX is again Blue strategie, again will have affordable price and gimmick. Last 2 years of wasteland but despite that Wii sold more than 100m, thats huge succes. Wii U was totally different than Wii and it seems want do well basically from start.

So what if NX failes, they have tons of money they will just try again. Saying that, nothing tells it will fail, they aiming mass appealing with affordable price, and they merged they software units.

Again, who cares about how much less powerful is than Xbox Scorpio if have great and beautiful games that can't be played anywhere else, if its handheld and home console in one, if have affordable price!?

720p for handheld screen not for TV and you really don't need more 720p for handheld, VIta has 540p and majority of Vita games ever run at lower resolution and games still look great. It asumed that will be 720p for handheld mode and 1080p in docked mode when you play on TV.

Because the longer they fail the further their reputation plummets, one more failure and they'll be a laughing stock in the home console market, if not as a platofrm holder in general. If the NX really fails (less than 25 million LTD) then they will not try again if they have any sense.

The NX is almost certainly going to have a larger battery than your phone. Because it has to have one to run that Tegra X1 chip, that means for whatever non-gaming tasks it does, the battery life for *that* should actually be pretty good. 

720p I think is a smarter resolution choice for that screen size. Higher would just needlessly drain the battery and at 6-inches, the PPI is quite good, nearly as good as a $500+ iPad. 

Most people don't take pictures with their tablet, so I don't think that's a big issue with the NX (the camera). 

Well if your point is that even a custom OS can get hacked ... then I guess my answer is ... so? Doesn't that just show people will hack anything (custom, open, whatever), so if that's the case, then Nintendo should just choose Android, at least they get a benefit from that in app revenue and access to a wide spectrum of functionality from day 1 without having to spend a dime. There is piracy on all popular platforms, the point is to limit it so that the average, regular player doesn't use it, but if some hardcore geek on the internet wants to exploit some low level hack, you're never going to prevent that type of person from doing that type of stuff.