Nintendo NX is a portable console

So from what the rumors say, Nintendo is giving up in Home Consoles. The NX will be a Handheld Console with a Smartphone look ao it can compete with Mobile Gaming. What are your expectations for it? Personally my hype is 7/10. I doubt the NX will fail like the WiiU

At best, it will be the Xperia Play sequel we all wanted. I heard the rumors about it having a touchscreen and detachable controls and can be used as a phone. I predict if they go that way they can sell it in two sizes: tablet size for the games who will play at home and phone size for the casuals and have it actually be a phone. BUT, don't sell it like a phone. Instead of being a phone that can play games, it's a handheld console that's also a phone. It's locked down like iOS but has all the Nintendo exclusive games.

It's still a hard sell I guess, but if the hardware is really as good as it is rumored and it's still a handheld then it might be what the WiiU should've been.

At worst, they'll make it based on android and if the hardware still can't at least be comparable with PS4/Xbone then it will fucking die.

Like, the best case is current gen multiplats but one of the platforms is a handheld. Ass Creed Syndicate, Dork Sous, Far Cry whatever, on console and also on NX with the same performance.

At worst it'll be a shitty nintendo brand android based shitphone that will seal Nintendo's fate. I'm interested to see where it goes.

A portable that's close to Xbox One in power is exciting. The last Nintendo home console I enjoyed was GameCube.

>So from what the rumors
Stopped reading there

>the Vita is ok if Nintendo does it.

Vita's problem was Sony's abysmal 1st party support for it, and 3rd parties other than small Japanese studios never really supported it. Nintendo games alone will make NX worth picking up.

>abysmal
>Resistance, Uncharted, Killzone, Tearaway, Little Big Planet, Gravity Rush, Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice, HD collections.

Nah, not having a super popular IP killed Vita, people didn't care enough of Sony's tradition of creating new IPs and opted for mobile to play games, the 3DS also suffered, but managed to survive thanks to Pokemon, Mario and Monster Hunter.

The memory sticks and the lack of major titles killed the vita.

>A bunch of crappy, watered down console experiences
>not abysmal

If Sony wasn't going to put real effort, why would third party devs?

>being this behind the news
its a hybrid, its much more powerful than a standard Nintendo handheld and its designed to plug into your tv as a system

I'm still convinced that it's going to be a hybrid if some sort.

>Nintendo games alone will make NX worth picking up.

it didn't help the Wii U

You have to be retarded. None of sony's games sell well on any system.

>and 3rd parties other than small Japanese studios never really supported it

That's literally every japanese studio you dipshit. Same with the 3ds. Just fuck off already. Handhelds aren't nearly as popular because of smartphones. Hundreds of millions of people who wanted portable time wasters no longer need to buy a second hardware unit in order to waste time. Handhelds CANNOT compete with mobile. They can only become mobile, which will not happen because sony doesn't make phones anymore and nintendo never started. There won't be a 3ds or a vita successor.

uncharted usually makes a lot of money

This. Thread is pointless hypothetical bullshit until someone has some real information. Otherwise a "rumor" is about equal to "some random faggot on kotaku said on twitter that..." yeah na.

I just listed plenty of 1st party major titles released on the vita during the first 2 years way more than some other consoles, that wasn't the issue.

Memory cards may have contributed, but I doubt they were the reason, people probably didn't even know the vita required a memory card.

>Watered down console experiences
So... like any other handheld?

>Nintendo games alone
>Wii U
>Games

Pic related, the entire Wii U library

But the Wii U didn't have any.

It doesn't move units though. First party games haven't been relevant in decades. All the big sellers are third party like yearly sports, yearly shooters, and autismcraft. None of these games were ever popular on handhelds nor ever will be. Some developers tried with the psp, like r* with lcs and vcs, but they ultimately just ended up being gimped gta games that were better when ported to ps2. Handhelds have always been about riskier, lower budget games. In order to succeed, these developers need massive markets. The fact that the 3ds + vita haven't even surpassed the psp proves the damage mobile has done.

This tee bee aych

If it has phone functionality i will buy one

It's even had less games when you look at the first party Nintendo releases. Even its own mother company hates it.

don't care about mobile gaming but I would LOVE it if nintendo combined their console and handheld game libraries into a single thing

instant buy if that's the case

The vita had great 1st party titles, but it needed a GTA:SA stories, GoW, Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter and MGS in order to sell well.

Too bad 3rd parties didn't care enough, the vita had all the potential to become the PSP 2

So it just looks like a smartphone? Why not just make a gaming smartphone?

>Here's a device that does what countless other devices already do but with less functionality

Considering how fucking retarded Nintendo has been for the last decade or so it wouldn't surprise me if this were true.

Literally the only console I gave to a family member and haven't bothered to get back, even since homebrew / piracy. It had so little games that by the time it was possible to pirate there was nothing to buy.

Best part about it is the backwards compatibility, which is essentially just a Wii when you think about it.

If this is true, then I don't see the problems. I stop liking Nintendo's home consoles during the GameCube era.

NX is an escort service

it will be total shit unless they release an accompanying PC client so you can play nintendo games on PC. but of course nintendo refuses to do this which is why theyre making it dockable.

tfw no real nintendo games with good graphics or technology ever again. feels bad man.

all they have to do is change pokemon go to be an NX exclusive

ez mode.

u have brain damage m8 ?

That game is already on the way out mate

What does the NX stand for?

Next eXperience
DS stood for Developer System

No gameX

>Dual Screen

It means "on dick".

The vita is a great system though, it was just expensive and didn't have that many system-sellers.