Nintendo NX -> Nintendo Switch (Switchcraft)

There's a paragraph that says it'll be as powerful as a Neo and another which says it'll run Android (?!), Miitomo could be the console's hub (?!?) and you can connect eight controllers to it (?!?!). The delay is also partly attributed to third parties as their games weren't ready.

I'm interested, but I want to see more from Ninty themselves before dropping my final judgement on the NX.

If Eurogamer are bang on the money, then I'm a bit worried. Power is something Nintendo shouldn't just forgo, and if this is meant to replace both the Wii U and the 3DS, then I was hoping to see a considerable step up in graphical oomph from what the Wii U can put out. Cartridges are a bit puzzling to me as well, but I've got a decent broadband connection so if I'm going to need to download a 20GB additional file to play a game, it won't be the end of the world.

As I said though, I'm waiting for the inevitable NX Direct.

If that's the case, then are Nintendo abandoning the home console market? It seems like a push towards that.

Why that gif Balla, what don't you like about it?

Let's assume all this is correct, I have a number of concerns:

• Battery Life. The WiiU gamepad boasts a total battery life of not very long. The WiiU gamepad isn't much more than a controller with a screen attached - processing etc. all happens in the magic black box. My worry is that if you make a powerful handheld, with a good sized screen (at least the size of the gamepad screen, definitely a higher res too.) it just won't last the 5 hours that I've decided I want from it as a bare minimum.
  
• It's not a DS, and it doesn't have a unique and innovative clam-shell design. It is therefore doomed to fail.
  
• Power. I wanted a beefy home console, but it sounds like I'm getting a tin of SPAM. One thing that would redeem it in this respect would be the docking station's ability to add a ton of oomph to the system for the tv display although having re-read the bit about the docking station this doesn't seem to be the case.
  

There are a few things that I don't mind so much:

• If you just treat it as a handheld that happens to do tv play as well then it doesn't seem so bad.
  
• Nintendo Handhelds usually do pretty well.
  
• My 3ds will be over 5 years old when NX comes out, probably time for a new toy.
  
• Hopefully won't be too expensive, so should compete pretty well with the other two. Assuming it's actually in competition with the other two, it isn't a true home console after all.
  

In summary: Personally I think the better move would be a dedicated home console, but I can see why this hybrid idea might have appeal. Assuming it gets past any battery issues without sacrificing the looks of the game and size of the screen and can display on the big screen effectively then I can actually see it doing really well. It just feels like a big assumption, is all.

I want the home console experience from a home console.  That, to some extent, does mean power.

Yeah yeah power isn't the be-all and end-all of everything, and I couldn't care less about how many of a generic CoD marine's bawhairs are lovingly rendered in 1080p/4K.  But I want huge open worlds, like in BotW, XCX, or any number of BBoP games.  I want huge amounts of enemies on-screen.  I want enormous castles stretching to the sky.  Stuff like that.

I'm very sceptical as to how well a handheld is going to be able to deliver those.  And any extra power that a docking station is going to be able to deliver?  Well you'd have thought it'd go into the graphics, which as I've said above I couldn't give two farts about.  Maybe beefing up the soundtrack.  You can't have an open world at home and a less open world on the train.  Can you?

I think the two Smash Bros. games are the best example we have of how a home console game can be hamstrung by trying to fit it onto a handheld as well.  Sakurai has outright stated that things had to be cut from characters as a result of the two-platform development: the Ice Climbers, in-game transformations, etc.  Now imagine that applied to other home console games.  What you are imagining, by the way, is tripe.

I feel that the "pro-hybrid" crowd are those who can enjoy their big open experiences on other consoles.  Yourself, and Drunka.  I could theoretically do the same, but I want Nintendo and Nintendo-like developers to be able to wield this power.  Imagine the sort of massive worlds they could craft: the intricately detailed Mario levels, the haunting crashed frigates, the lush Kong-filled jungles.  Instead they've hamstrung themselves by going for innovation over sense, just like the Wii U.  And I was pro the Gamepad and the Wiimote, remember.  I like innovation.  But right now, I'd rather see Nintendo make the best home console they can for a generation, and then go back to their innovating ways once they've got something truly great to bring us.

Bottom line is, if they somehow come out with a handheld that, without sacrificing on battery life, could potentially deliver BBoP-like experiences, fair play to them.  That would be incredible.  And I mean just that: I wouldn't believe it.  Otherwise I hope this is another false report, and that, as I have said before in this very thread, Nintendo deliver us the Nintendo Beefy.


(I also have a slight concern about cartridges, mostly because I'd rather have an NX that gets third parties back on board.  I have no idea how easy it would be to convert from cart to disc.)

But hasn't Nintendo & Platinum showed with BotW & Bayo 2 what they can do with hardware and the Tegra X1 is more powerful then the Wii U, that the NX will likely be a rather powerful hybrid.

I'm not pro-hybrid but it's just made so much sense on so many fronts and the Nintendo Beefy would be great but that would surely mean competing with PS4's and XBONE's which Nintendo don't want to seem to do and would that sale as well where for handhelds they have pretty much zero competition part from mobile which is huge yes but Nintendo will be bringing both their audiences together under one roof and you got to think proper Pokemon on a TV screen for instance will be a big deal.

I wish I could say what I know but I took it in good faith and you juts have to read this rumors