Nintendo NX is a portable console with detachable controllers (Eurogamer)

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Eurogamer are reporting that Nintendo's upcoming NX will be a portable, handheld console with detachable controllers:

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.

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:arrow:Read the full article with a lot more info here: Source
 

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As far as rumors go, I think it's a pretty decent and likely one.

-nintendo never officially said anything on the NX yet. With the situation on the wiiu being dire, everyone always assumed it's a next home console. However, as was somewhat vaguely hinted in Japanese trade conferences, it was going to be some sort of hybrid.
-nintendo always innovates (whether you like it or not). In fact, this "wiiu without being chained to a TV" was one of the complaints from the very beginning, so it's only a natural progression. Of course there are always people hating on innovation, but their opinion doesn't amount to much until about a year after launch.
-the shift to mobile. The first experimental apps from nintendo (and affiliates) show the direction they want to go, and with the success of pokemon go I doubt they're on the wrong track.
 
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Overclocked X1 chips apparently in the devkits, possibly to match X2 performance when that rollovers. So perhaps X2 may be in the cards if they are using overclocked X1 chips currently.

Either way the we gonna end up with a beefy handheld, an immence generation leap over the 3DS and even the PSVita.

The docking station may have addition RAM, CPU, GPU to boost the performance for TV gaming, or it can allow active cooling allowing the X1 to overclock for better performance.
 
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It's like selling vita for portable, vita tv for home, and abandoning ps4! Could we take this as Nintendo has officially abandoned home console market?
 
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Maybe it can be designed to increase clock speed when connected to power. So it can output higher resolution/framerate to TV monitor with using more electricity than when playing outside. Just as some games run better on N3DS with more cores and higher clock speed.
And backwards compatibility shouldn't be a problem with downloads.
 
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please have more/better games please. I dont really care about the design but more about the games
 

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Maybe it can be designed to increase clock speed when connected to power. So it can output higher resolution/framerate to TV monitor with using more electricity than when playing outside. Just as some games run better on N3DS with more cores and higher clock speed.
And backwards compatibility shouldn't be a problem with downloads.
Backwards Compatibility is impossible with Tegra. They would have had to stick with PowerPC to do that, and I'm glad they didn't. This console might be strong enough to emulate some gamecube games too, but probably not the bigger games like Wind Waker.
 

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Uh I understand that's completely your opinion but I simply can't agree with any of that. Hideous? External GPUs are in a mini tower... Expensive? Yeah, this is nVidia for Christ's sake... Not even an option? If it was in a Nintendo branded case with enough power to compete with the new PS4 or XBOne then why not?
Mini towers are hideous, bulky, heavy and geeky. A normal user would never accept them. That's why Nintendo would never use them.

Also why think of mini towers? We're not talking about a PC here, they don't need a GTX1080. A GTX980M would blow the socks off every console out there and it's smaller than my hand. It also doesn't require an external power-supply.

Now THAT would be something doable, but still it'd add $200-300 to the final price so, nope, never gonna happen. You guys need to think of the cost factor, and external GPU easily doubles the price of the console so nope.
 

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Mini towers are hideous, bulky, heavy and geeky. A normal user would never accept them. That's why Nintendo would never use them.

Also why think of mini towers? We're not talking about a PC here, they don't need a GTX1080. A GTX980M would blow the socks off every console out there and it's smaller than my hand. It also doesn't require an external power-supply.

Now THAT would be something doable, but still it'd add $200-300 to the final price so, nope, never gonna happen. You guys need to think of the cost factor, and external GPU easily doubles the price of the console so nope.
No way 980M is stronger than every console. The mobile versions of every GPU are much much weaker than their console counterparts.
EDIT: Oh wait, was thinking of a different gpu. NVM.
 

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Backwards Compatibility is impossible with Tegra. They would have had to stick with PowerPC to do that, and I'm glad they didn't. This console might be strong enough to emulate some gamecube games too, but probably not the bigger games like Wind Waker.
Xbox One supports it without same architecture. They basically ported all those games to make them run on a totally different system didn't they? Though it was provided that XBO is much stronger than XB360 to make the job easy.
 

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Xbox One supports it without same architecture. They basically ported all those games to make them run on a totally different system didn't they? Though it was provided that XBO is much stronger than XB360 to make the job easy.
That isn't really backwards compatibility though (atleast not in my definition) backwards compatiblity means that I can just use my games for the old system on my new system.
 
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That isn't really backwards compatibility though (atleast not in my definition) backwards compatiblity means that I can just use my games for the old system on my new system.
Agreed. But they call it so, anyway.. Nintendo already has their service called virtual console, so I can safely expect to play most Wii U games on NX.
 

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