No prob! And sorry I missed that--it's been tough keeping up with the multiple threads.
Yeah, it would be the cheapest solution for sure. Just an HDMI controller, power connector, hub for ports, and maybe a couple other miscellaneous things I'm forgetting. Depending on how they design the hardware, they could replace the cheap dock with an SCD perhaps somewhere down the road.
Oh, no sweat of course. Thanks man. I agree they should design the HH as future-proof as possible, though surely it will have its own revisions. But customers will be most pleased I'm sure to have the option to upgrade whichever part they prefer to.
The point is that it wouldn't keep the cost down. To make the GPU run faster when on AC would cost exactly 0$, especially when you consider that there's absolutely 0% that they go for anything above half the nominal clock of the GPU in handheld mode for consumption reasons.
Ah, I didn't understand that. So, it will be no more expensive to make the games look automatically better on the console, then. Hopefully they do that. Thanks for the info.
Yup, it's not technically "SD" either, although that could just be a small error in Huenry's wording. Your second question is exactly what I was wondering. Maybe someone else can chime in. HD text can be difficult/impossible to read if displayed in SD, but other assets? Not sure.
You wouldn't want to use assets made for 480i on 540p, though. You'd want to use HD assets since that's a better fit, especially if it's meant to upscale to 1080p anyway. There's no real benefit to using two different sets of assets for two different resolutions on the same hardware.
Thanks for the info, Malo. Perhaps the tweeter wasn't talking about NX, then.
But a 720p screen may be cheaper since it's more common and easier to source. Everything upscales from 720p to 1080p well already anyway. I'm also adamant that 5" is much too small of a screen size for the side controllers to work or to get anything good in terms of performance out of this thing.
What's the sweet spot on a screen size for you?
Even I don't want a iPad size just something a bit bigger than 5".Maybe iPad mini size, personally I would prefer at least a 6"-7"screen .
FWIW, iPad Mini has no controllers on the sides. That size is going to be pretty bulky judging by the Wii U GamePad and its 6.2" screen. I'm not sure how portable that would feel.
We need to spin up those #TeamReal and #TeamFake avatars again. Can't believe this Eurogamer article has spawned a 200 page thread.
Regardless, I really hope Nintendo will shoehorn GCN games into the NX.
2017 Year of Sunshine HD
I imagine we will finally get GCN games on VC.
I don't think we will get Sunshine HD, though, any more than we've gotten any VC games in HD. 480p as with Wii. I doubt Nintendo wants to out in the herculean effort of having to make their least successful (in sales* and just as a game) 3D Mario fully remade to be a great game. The game has a lot of issues and would require more remaking than any prior HD or 3DS renake.
*Ok technically based on the last numbers we have, 3DW sold .4 M fewer copies, but relative to install base, I think there's no question 3DW was wildly successful in comparison.