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Nintendo NX Is a Portable Console With Detachable Controllers, Says Report (eurogamer.net)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Eurogamer.net: We now have a good idea as to what the Nintendo NX will consist of thanks to a new report from Eurogamer. According to a number of sources, Nintendo's upcoming NX will be a portable, handheld console with detachable controllers. Eurogamer.net reports: "On the move, NX will function as a high-powered handheld console with its own display. So far so normal -- but here's the twist: we've heard the screen is bookended by two controller sections on either side, which can be attached or detached as required. Then, when you get home, the system can connect to your TV for gaming on the big screen. A base unit, or dock station, is used to connect the brain of the NX -- within the controller -- to display on your TV. NX will use game cartridges as its choice of physical media, multiple sources have also told [Eurogamer]. Another source said the system would run on a new operating system from Nintendo. It won't, contrary to some earlier rumors, simply run on Android. [...] The system will harness Nvidia's powerful mobile processor Tegra. Graphical comparisons with current consoles are difficult due to the vastly different nature of the device -- but once again we've heard Nintendo is not chasing graphical parity. Quite the opposite, it is sacrificing power to ensure it can squeeze all of this technology into a handheld, something which also tallies with earlier reports. Finally, we've heard from one source that NX planning has recently moved up a gear within Nintendo ahead of the console's unveiling, which is currently slated for September. After the confused PR fiasco of the Wii U launch, the company is already settling on a simple marketing message for NX -- of being able to take your games with you on the go."
Except none of your dozens of systems has the Mario Franchise on it. or the other nintendo only franchises that have a rabid following.
it's about the games not the hardware. Those that think it's about the hardware, just do not play games.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
It's a Tegra X1 (possibly successor.) Enough power to emulate an original Wii if Nintendo wants to.
There we go, now we see your true colors. You haven't mentally matured since you were 15.
Here's a secret: real adults don't care about what looks adult or not. That's why Mario still sells so well.
It's ok sport, one day you'll grow up too. Probably. ;)
"decent mobile gaming" Those words, I do not think they mean what you think they mean. Nintendo makes the only good handheld gaming right now. Vita is a distant second, and Nvidia shield is a joke. Cellphones are crap for gaming, unless your idea of quality is angry birds and candy crush.
No one over the age of 12 gives a damn about any of Nintendos game franchises. If they think they're going to corner the kids market then good luck to them, but they might find that the kids have moved on.
"Those that think it's about the hardware, just do not play games."
Of course its about the hardware or we'd all still be playing games on an Atari 2600.
As a thirty-something year old gamer (at least when I have free time), a lot of the main Nintendo franchises are still amazing to play and replay. If I feel like playing a real-time strategy or first person shooter then Nintendo doesn't offer much, but when I want to play an adventure game or platformer their franchises are still heavy weights in the arena and well worth considering.
Hey, my smart phone does double duty as an Ebook reader. I also play Master of Magic on it via Dosbox and a portable keyboard with touchpad (It's great for doctor's visits!). OFC, when you need a cellphone stand, a USB A to micro adapter, and a small wireless keyboard, you ain't exactly doing "mobile" gaming anymore than a laptop user is. And no, using the onscreen keyboard and touchscreen is NOT a viable option for Dosbox.
Try playing any oldschool action game on your mobile device and tell us how well you went.
I'm pretty sure you can't for example reach the ending of megaman 3.
Nintendo is in the fortunate position that they needn't rely on third party games. They have a pretty well stocked catalog themselves. Mario, Smash Brothers, now probably Pokemon, too, what more "exclusives" do you need?
Noticeably, Nintendo has always been the "odd man out" when it came to games libraries. Non-exclusives for XB or PS usually eventually came out for the other system, but Nintendo always had a nearly distinct game library from the other two. That does matter. It means that Nintendo doesn't have to compete with them on their turf. XB and PS have always been busy one-up'ing each other in specs, mostly because, well, if you have the same games on both systems, what matters is simply "where does it look better" and "where does it run more smoothly". If you're dealing with a completely different game base, you can't compare. More over, the games have a vastly different focus. Where PS and XB focus on action oriented games where multiplayer is mostly a thing of online gaming, Nintendo's consoles always had a distinct focus on local multiplayer, complete with a lineup of party games and controllers that were, compared to XB and PS controllers, VERY basic and simplified, so you didn't first have to learn to play, you could simply pick them up and play. Maybe not perfectly, but most games were of the "easy to pick up" kind that lends itself well to party gaming.
So I do think that Nintendo can (and will) survive as this "niche" player. It has a few strong IPs in their pocket, and since they themselves own that IP, there is exactly zero danger that this IP would ever go to another console, hoping for a bigger market share there. Even the WiiU, which was a train wreck from conception to inception to realization to actually playing with that piece of garbage, couldn't prevent that. I still don't see why anyone thought the WiiU was a good idea, and I don't know anyone who really wanted that console, but, well, there's nowhere else you could play Mario games. And Smash Brothers. And the other consoles simply suck as party consoles. Even more than the WiiU, believe it or not.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Phones have terrible interface problems for any kind of "serious" gaming. Touchscreens are utter shit for fine control, and provide no tactile feedback.
I don't blame Nintendo for not wanting to slap a shitty user interface on top of their games just to get some share of the mobile market.
As a 20 something year old gamer I can say that Nintendo has the worst franchises of all time.
Nice trolling attempt.
Nintendo has a lot of good franchises, and despite what you apparently think, they make more than Mario Kart and Super Mario Bros sequels (however, the mainline platformers like Super Mario Bros and Kirby have always been very good).
The mainline Zelda games have also been top-notch (the spin-offs, maybe not so much).
The gameplay in the mainline Pokemon series is solid, even if the story is a little simplistic.
Fire Emblem is a solid tactical RPG series
See also the mainline Metroid games, the Paper Mario series (cutesy graphics, but solid games), Punch-Out!!, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, and so on and so on. Just because they don't appeal to you personally doesn't mean that they're bad by any stretch.
Agreed, none of the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone games have anywhere near the depth or fun of a halfway decent DS/3DS cartridge game.
I'm pretty sure that's for two technical reasons.
Limits of blind positional input A touch screen is designed for applications where you activate objects that you're looking at. That's fine for point-and-click games or continuous runner games like Rayman Jungle Run where a whole quadrant of the screen is the button. But a lot of other genres don't handle well with a touch screen as the only input method, especially games where you control the speed and direction of movement and attacks of a character in the center of a scrolling view. The virtual gamepad in Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure for Android was an exercise in frustration, as I kept pressing outside the controls' active area. Unlike a modern smartphone, the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS systems have physical buttons and directional controls, and I'm pretty sure that most action-oriented games for those systems use them. Latency Android is reportedly plagued by input lag and audio lag. A game like Punch-Out!! would be unplayable under such conditions.As an adult I still play Mario Kart and Smash Bro. Mostly because These are the few games left that allow Me and my Wife to play at the same time. Most of the games for the XBox and PS4 are not side by side multi-player.
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