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I wonder if they are finally ditching resistive touch
Share the pics please where is itThis looks cool. Might get one.
If it intends to function as a home console then is, it is a hybrid.
Its not confirmed nor announced by Nintendo yet. Chill with that "i told you so" attitudelol, I remember people in proir NX threads being absolutely certain the console would not be a hybrid "because Miyamoto said so" and yet here we are.
The fact that the current kits have an extremely noisy cooling fan on the chip seems to suggest to me there is something more going on with the chip. X1 in the shield TV has a fan but it is basically silent.
The X1 could be overclocked to a crazy degree to simulate X2 and that would require moving beyond the silent cooling option.
I made a quick mockup based on the details given by Eurogamer. I am just going to leave it here for whatever purposes it may serve.
Yes. That was in 2012. Now smartphones are dominating the mobile gaming market even more. Particularly in Japan where a ton of 3DS devices was sold early in its life. So yes, the NX can definitely go the way of the Vita if the market turns out to have moved away from dedicated handhelds. Especially if it ends up rather pricy by Handheld standards because of the hardware and gadgets. If it ends up selling NX numbers or less to a niche audience then that's not going to be enough.did you know that nintendo released a handheld that was on the market the same time as the vita and sold 5x the number of units? it's one of those neat little gaming facts that not a lot of people are aware of.
Eurogamer mentioned a base dock for the NX, so there is the possibility that the power may get buffed by said dock.To paraphrase an earlier post.
There's nothing about a hybrid here, at last in terms of home console/handheld hybrid. The device as described is just a weird portable with an HDMI connection.
SameI really hate the right analog stick being above the face buttons, but I think I better get used to it.
Yes. That was in 2012. Now smartphones are dominating the mobile gaming market even more. Particularly in Japan where a ton of 3DS devices was sold early in its life. So yes, the NX can definitely go the way of the Vita if the market turns out to have moved away from dedicated handhelds.
The fact that it's even being reported on is big news.Its not confirmed nor announced by Nintendo yet. Chill with that "i told you so" attitude
Yup. Dual 1080's in the base unit for 4K gaming. Keep up bro.
There's a way to post without being all passive-agressive. You should give it a shot.
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Supplemental computing devices that provide processing and/or storage resources to game consoles to assist these game consoles in executing a game. In some instances, a game console locally executes a copy of a game using resources of the game console. In addition, however, the game console may couple to a supplemental computing device that includes resources that the game console may also utilize to increase the speed or quality of a user's gaming experience. For instance, the supplemental computing device may couple via a physical connection (e.g., a wired connection) to the game console for processing data associated with the game and providing a result back to the console, and/or for storing game data on behalf of the game console.
Eurogamer mentioned a base dock for the NX, so there is the possibility that the power may get buffed by said dock.
On the other hand, what if this ends up being 3DSuses Nvidia Tegraall over again?
Wall of text, I know, just use this as a reference.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2010/06/3ds_will_supposedly_not_use_nvidias_tegra_technology
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/nvidia-unconnected-with-3ds-blog-entry
http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/01/26/everything-we-know-about-the-3ds
http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/01/06/nintendo-working-on-high-spec-ds-successor
https://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/nvidia-tegra-to-power-next-gen-nintendo-ds/
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I don't think it will, though. Having the two controller units be symmetrical will probably be Nintendo's priority.Same
Hopefully that part of the design changes
And there's that too. I'm still on the fence until we see official news from nintendo.
Thanks Amy.
Another thought about the dock/base station boosting performance...could it be cloud based?
Any words on storage?
I'm completely digital, don't want to be buying carts.
Considering it's mobile the HDD probably isn't big.
4. The NX is a software development platform, not a piece of hardware. NX will support PC in the near future.
5. Nintendo will abandon the home console market and switch to PC with their own version of Steam.
That would indeed be a different story, but they haven't said that.
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.
Not reading an OP is a bannable offense:
This is Nintendo, so no. They can't even store everyone's Mario Maker levels; there's no way they'll augment the NX with cloud-based rendering. Plus cloud-based rendering isn't nearly fast enough for most game purposes, which is why it's being used only for crumbling buildings in Crackdown, where you don't need an immediate response
I mentioned this earlier, but it got buried in all of the gut reactions. Anyway, if this NX rumor proves true, I fear for what it may entail for competitive Smash, especially if I can't plug in a GameCube Adapter to the TV dock (or at least some kind of wired controller). This would suck even more if the port of Smash 4 ends up having more content that would impact competitive play.
There's no mention of a spec boost there.Not reading an OP is a bannable offense:
But the SCDs are local instead of using server farms millions of miles away.
Any words on storage?
I'm completely digital, don't want to be buying carts.
Considering it's mobile the HDD probably isn't big.
4. The NX is a software development platform, not a piece of hardware. NX will support PC in the near future.
5. Nintendo will abandon the home console market and switch to PC with their own version of Steam.
Not reading an OP is a bannable offense:
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.
It's a good thing the OP nor Eurogamer said anything about the base station adding extra power, which is clearly what the guy you quoted was replying to
There's no mention of a spec boost there.
If it's doing nothing but passing video to the TV via HDMI then it's completely pointless as an HDMI dongle and/or mini HDMI out on the portable would make more sense and keep cost down and profit margins higher.
I made a quick mockup based on the details given by Eurogamer. I am just going to leave it here for whatever purposes it may serve.
If it's 16/14nm it's got to be Pascal or a custom chip that would be expensive anyway. Devkit is said to have a Tegra X1 with a fan and heatsink so that would be too power hungry. It's got to be Pascal Tegra. What kind of battery life would a Tegra X1 handheld have?
Though Nvidia downplayed console margins, their pride was hurt by the loss in console contracts. All the talk about "focusing on Shield" was a cover for the fact that MS and Sony had soured on them and would not enter negotiations.
Nvidia team was told to get a console win or "go home." Enter Nintendo, who apparently made off very well in this deal. This to the point that SemiAccurate questions whether this is a "win" at all for Nvidia.
SA has heard that Nvidia are promising software, support, and the whole shebang at a very low cost. According to one source, Nvidia may even be taking a loss on this deal. (Take the second sentence here with an extra portion of salt)
The ping is still unlikely to be fast enough given Nintendo's emphases on real-time performance.
But even if it were, connections aren't reliable enough for that to be feasible. There is literally no chance in hell Nintendo is even contemplating this. It only adds costs and complications for something that Nintendo doesn't even need, given how they design games
Why does there have to be a spec boost to be a hybrid? That may be something you want personally, but by definition a portable that also docks and acts as a home console with detachable controllers IS a hybrid.
What do you mean? Each player with have one analog stick and four buttons, plus whatever trigger / scroll wheel there is. Edit : It's limited, but no more than a Wiimote.