You know I can do that very thing with my PS4 and Vita right now. Sure it might not be a function of all games, but I can absolutely play some games on my PS4, save them, download the save to my vita, and keep playing on the go. Many of those games were "cross-buy" so it came with both PS4 and Vita copies of teh game. The only real "innovation" here on the concept would be making such a gameplay option available on all games, and making it less cumbersome.

MY SPECULATION: So the NX is going to be a home console that comes with It's own mini pocket game system. The mini pocket game system is not meant to be a full blown handheld that plays the same cartridge, but a mini portable. Say when you buy your NX console game and load it into the NX, the mini portable gets mini games that directly tie into the main console game. Buy playing the mini games on the go you unlock items to be used in the main game. When you get back home and put the mini pocket unit back in the console it automaticaly updates your NX game with new goodies. No Internet required. So you don't just get one game when you buy an NX cartridge, but several. Later on Nintendo can release a powerful portable system that actually uses the same NX cartridge.

MY SPECULATION: So the NX is going to be a home console that comes with It's own mini pocket game system. The mini pocket game system is not meant to be a full blown handheld that plays the same cartridge, but a mini portable. Say when you buy your NX console game and load it into the NX, the mini portable gets mini games that directly tie into the main console game. Buy playing the mini games on the go you unlock items to be used in the main game. When you get back home and put the mini pocket unit back in the console it automaticaly updates your NX game with new goodies. No Internet required. So you don't just get one game when you buy an NX cartridge, but several. Later on Nintendo can release a powerful portable system that actually uses the same NX cartridge.

Yes, that's the point...

I think you guys are far too caught up on the word "innovation." You think it means Nintendo has to do a Wii-like mindscrew and bring something so out of left field that we're left trying to roll up our tongues off of the floor. When Apple "innovated" with the iPhone and iPad, it didn't invent those types of devices; smartphones and tablets already existed. It took existing markets, turned them on their heads, and made such concepts mainstream and indespensible. That's what Nintendo is hoping to do with the NX.

I think he has poorly chosen words, he later even call handheld "the thing", he could call base unit a home console, it's very obvious he has hard time explaining whole concept, he also in one video called it hybrid.

JustBeingReal's reply: There's literally no reason to think Boogie's words were poorly chosen, I don't know if your native language isn't english or some other other issue that effects your ability to assess the statements others make, but you often don't seem to actually grasp a person's words as they are intended.

Boogie's wording was deliberate and based on what he was told.

He's not calling the handheld the system here, if he was then he wouldn't have said the handheld can play a form of the game, he would have just said the handheld plays the game exactly as it does when you play it on the console, there would be no difference, he didn't emphasize the same level of performance in both modes.

A mobile device is more limiting technically, it has to be because space is needed to help deal with the heat issues of more power intensive processing technology.

"I've talked to two people who have used it. One is from Ubisoft and he said programming for it is actually really nice and Nintendo is working very closely with him and that the concept is great because he said, you could play... Uh, I dunno how careful I should be with it... Let's say you could play Assassin's Creed once you have your handheld plugged into your console. And then, you could then detach the thing and take it with you and play the Assassin's Creed mobile game out of your pocket. And then when you get back home, plug it directly in and now it attaches back to the... That's brilliant. That's smart, right? Taking a form of the game with you as you go. So he says it's a dream to code for. And then somebody I know who's played on the NX for 20 minutes said... It's as innovative as they'd hoped and 'we wish we had done that.'"

JustBeingReal's reply: You've literally just reinfoced my point, by copying Boogie's words and they show he's not saying what you believe him to be.

Actually read his comments straight, without thinking about the Eurogamer rumor, remove that from your mind, Boogie's saying this system has a handheld and a console, the handheld plays a form of the game, it doesn't play the exact same way on the handheld as it does when you plug the handheld into the console, the only way that works is if the console has more power, the handheld fits in a person's pocket, which means it's far more limited in it's ability to deal with heat that a processing chip puts out and that means it's not going to be able to overclock or have extra internal processing tech that can be activated when connected to a mains power supply.

Nowhere in Boogie's comments did he say that NX docks into a dummy unit that sends gameplay to your TV, he just says it connects, which could be through a dock, but also a cable or some other manner that Nintendo worked out.

No way it will cost $450, after 3DS and Wii U Nintendo will not again go for high price espacily in middle of generation, they know it cant have higher price than XB1/PS4, also Nintendo said they aiming affordable price. Personaly I expecting $249-299 price point.

There's definitely no way NX is going to be that expensive as a single unit or even with the kind of thing that Boogie was told NX is.

The tech to make a console with performance around XB1 and PS4 or slightly better than PS4 for a console, bundled in with a handheld that can get around a 7th gen console (which is what a pocket fitting form factor device can handle) could be done for $299.

Fact that NX will sell much better than Wii U. :D

JustBeingReal's reply: Which isn't based on anything tangible right now, in order for that to happen Nintendo would need to target the market that buys third party games with their own exclusives, they haven't done that since the SNES days really when younger people gamed, now they ignore the people that made up the majority of their audience back in the earlier console days.

This requires a minimum level of performance technically speaking to accommodate the vision that 3rd party devs have and also allow Nintendo's own developers the freedom to expand their IP to more diverse heights.

Generally the wider gaming audience would care more about accessibility and how the device fits around their lives and that it provides them with the ability to play all of the titles they want.

See reply in bold.

FYI SuperMetalDave64 has put out a video talking about Boogie's latest blog post.

It seems Boogie's sources aren't verified, but rather they've be right about some of the rumors leaked and he feels they could be legit, just as with the SMD64, Eurogamer, WSJ, IGN and other articles talking about NX leaks people should take all of this with a big grain of salt.