Nintendo NX Is Portable, Has Detachable Controllers and Uses Cartridges - Report

this is going to be great!

Lots of Nintendo haters on here. This is a great idea that will combine mobile and home gaming. This is an attempt at being a real system targeting gamers and not a fad like the Wii. Unfortunately it looks like my hopes of it being backwards compatible have just gone up in smoke. And screw the 3rd party support, they have never had it and never will.

It'll probably use Tegra X2 in the main mobile unit, plus another Tegra X2 in the docking station. I'm also imaging that the cartridge port will be some bastardized version of a PCI-E interface for high-bandwidth transfer rates between the games and the CPU/GPU cores. Which could also act as a dumbed-down version of PC SLI when you slap the handheld into the docking station via the cartridge port. All just speculation, but that's the only method I can see as providing a usable boost of power.

Sounds like another gen of no third party support. If they're not going to make a normal console, devs won't bother porting over their multiplats and it will just be Nintendo making games for it. A game would need to be developed as an exclusive for the NX to make sense, but unless Nintendo moneyhats the dev, the install base won't be there and no one will bother. Why make a game for one platform, when you can make a game that can easily be ported to 3 different platforms (PC, XB1, PS4)? It makes no financial sense to make 3rd party NX games unless they're low budget titles like 3DS games.

The Tegra X2 chip has not been officially unveiled by Nvidia yet. They will not do this until August 22.

My guess is that the reason Nintendo is being so quiet about NX details, is because they plan to utilize the X2 chip.

There's no way that Nvidia would allow Nintendo to unveil a product utilizing the chip that they themselves have not announced yet.

Well, it's very reasonable to avoid competing head to head with powerhouse specs, so I'm interested in seeing what Nintendo can bring this time. If the Neo and Scorpio are too far ahead in development by then, then Nintendo will have a good space in between to profit from whatever they're hiding.

Sure sounds like another stupid attempt at create something "truly innovative". Maybe it'll finally break Nintendo's neck.

3ds with xbox one power ill buy one

hopefully that the handle side of things, but it turns out it's the only thing i probably buy when i get bored of my wii u and other games that i going to buy for it.

Perfect move for Nintendo, aim at the market they have been winning for decades, for people with no interest in handhelds move along this isn't aimed at you.

Nintendo is aiming at the Japanese market, in 5 years the 3ds has sold over 58 million units world wide, over a third of those were in Japan, If they can release it at a reasonable price and hopefully with BC with the 3ds it will sell millions in the first month, if they release a Monster hunter and a rpg Pokemon title near release as well it will become an unstoppable force.

This looks to be a disastrous move by Nintendo and I'm almost certain if this doesn't sell massive numbers, then it's all over for the company as far as hardware goes. I just don't see the mileage in something like this anymore. I agree with everyone else here in that all Nintendo had to do was throw out a powerful console and that would have satisfied the Ninty fan base and some other casual gamers but I don't think they would make a dent to the kind of figures PS4 and XBox1 have generated this time around. Absolutely no chance there.

Secondly, it's the lack of games. Nintendo just cannot continue to milk the Zelda/Mario shit any more. They just can't. They have to open up the software market to other developers to jump on board but that's going to require something worth investing in and I just can't see that happening either. Looking at the long term forecast, It's not looking good for Nintendo.

thi sis gonna be awful

This actually sounds like the perfect console for me since my working place is about 2 hours away from where I live going by train. And while I use my smartphone or my 3ds already to pass the time on the train having a console I can have portable and, comming home, can plug into my TV sounds really interesting.

I just hope that the battery life is good, that might make or break the console.

Nomad Xtreme? Go home, Nintendo, you're drunk.

Hey you know what? took me a while, but I think I can come around. I had my own ideas of what I wanted from a ninty console, But I guess what I really want, is some fun games. I, like many other people, feel like you abandoned wii u and its really lacking in games. Sure, there are some great ones but its not enough. So I just hope that you guys at nintendo really put it in to gear and send out a bunch of good games, and encourage 3rd parties to do the same. I think if you manage to do that, I will be fine with that

As I predicted. Nintendo hasnt learn Jack sh*t from its past. They just sealed their fate in the gaming industry.

farewell, I'll remember the good times...

I'm not liking what I'm reading and I don't even play games in handheld anymore. I have my 3DS in drawer and I haven't pull it out to play a single game in more than a year.

In some ways this could work out great, its great specs for a handheld, better than Wii U while at home(not saying much), and Nintendo could stop developing for two different platforms.

now if ti played 3ds games

is nintendo retarded? just make a normal powerful console with your nintendo os

Got to admit I'm not liking what I'm hearing about the nx as I don't really care for mobile gaming

Sounds disappointing, to me at least.

I don't like playing games on a gameboy (haven't really played in years). I want to play games on my 50" tv.

I enjoy the Mario games (Bros, 3D, Kart, Smash, etc) and like Pokken as well. But want them made for normal use, not playing on the go. Not sure I will be buying Nintendo's next system.

Peter Griffin's reaction to the reports.

Saying it is a "powerful" handheld device is an understatement. This is nearly as powerful (or just as powerful) as the Wii U, WHILE being portable. This handheld is OP if you ask me. But I think Nintendo should do this in the future. Extremely powerful handheld consoles that can play some home consoles too.

handheld devices are not judged as harshly as home consoles (except the Vita, oh boy what a flop), so it'll be easy for Nintendo. And since it is a portable console, it will live twice as long as home consoles. It will have the usual handheld games with usual handheld graphics, but it will also have "blockbuster" titles such as the new Zelda.

It might not have the big games PS4 and XB1 are getting, but it will have some other use. And developers might even use it as some "special" platform since Nintendo won't be competing against Sony and Microsoft (like mobiles are currently being used as "special" platforms for small games and whatnot).

But these cartridges must be huge in space. Just Dance 2016 is 21.7 GB, and Ubisoft said they were going to release their next Just Dance on the NX. So it means that the cartridges should be around 30+ GB in capacity (I am not saying that the next Just Dance will be 30 GB, but there are other games that are bigger than Just Dance).

And what about internal storage space then!? I hope that if it does have it, it will be better than the Wii U's 8 GB and 32 GB for the deluxe model. That was bad...

Wait, didn't Shigeru Miyamoto said it was also VR capable (based on an article from GameSpot)? Well, this handheld is definitely OP as heck.

another waste of time and money from Nintendo, I guess they want to rejoin Sega, Atari and few others in the pantheon of great gaming companies that failed to see what to do to stay in the race GG

If you own a wii u you could see this coming it's what it should have been.

Breakable lost parts goes really well after Wii U a family console packed with one touch screen controller that kids could fight over who got to use it! Just brilliant Nintendo ???

That is fine just FFS have the damn screen be bigger and use up more of the controller, seriously so many of the games at times force the Wii U controller screen and the damn thing could easily be 25% bigger.

i'm actually excited. the one thing i hated about the 3ds and vita was that there was no connection to the TV. so now you have a system that is probably stronger than a ps4 thats portable and can hook up to the TV. i look at this as a gameboy upgrade more than a wii u upgrade.