It could absolutely launch then, but it would mean they'd have nothing for all of 2016 and 3/4 of 2017 (because they're not going to launch before the winter holiday shopping season). They basically have nothing for the rest of 2015 also with the delay of Zelda, which basically in my mind means Nintendo is being busy cross-porting the game to the NX - although probably not using much, if any of the new console's hardware power, just like with Twilight Princess for the Wii.
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Well for a portable, what is the highest it could be priced?
Maybe about $250?
For that, they should be able to use a 2K screen. Isn't Amazon selling a $50 tablet with a high rez screen?
They could price it at $250 and then cut the price when sales are slow, as they did with the 3DS.
Maybe about $250?
For that, they should be able to use a 2K screen. Isn't Amazon selling a $50 tablet with a high rez screen?
They could price it at $250 and then cut the price when sales are slow, as they did with the 3DS.
Nope. They no longer sell quality tablets. They switched over to shitty Nintendo level of subpar quality screens, 1024x600 7" or 1280x800 8" or 10"
Old:
Amazon older product of Fire HDX was a $150 7" tablet with quality screen resolution of 1920x1200 [ http://www.amazon.com/kindle-fire-hdx-student-gaming-tablet/dp/B00BWYQ9YE ]
Current:
Amazon $50 7" tablet now with screen resolution of 1024x600. [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TSUGXKE ]
Amazon $150 8" tablet now with screen resolution of 1280x800 [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S5HFVGI ]
Amazon $250 10" tablet now with screen resolution of 1280x800 [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VKIY9RG ]
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"Industry leading chips".
Not THAT would be interesting.
Not THAT would be interesting.
Doesn't say if industry leading desktop or mobile, so doesn't really give an indicator of power unfortunately. I'd also argue AMD with stacked RAM will be industry leading, yet used for price competitiveness rather than enhancing performance.
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...Or toy Industry..........
So as suspected, this is a 3ds replacement with remote play or most likely a Vita-lite.
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That's pretty funny! I'm still naively hopeful that Nintendo surprise everyone with a stonkingly good machine. I do wonder about their timing though, the NX is going to drop the same year as VR.
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It's probably industry leading in terms of the most up to date GPU and CPU HW architecture, with stacked HBM as you say.
However, I'm certainly expecting a spanner thrown into that with a paltry TDP budget or miniscule die area. Nintendo gotta Nintendo somewhere
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Wall Street is covering Nintendo's presentation about their smartphone game portfolio:
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/29/nintendo-unveils-first-smartphone-game-live-blog/
Aaaand they just announced a free2play smartphone title called "Miitomo" with in-app purchases that seems to be some kind of social interaction app like having an avatar and chatting with friends with no apparent purpose.. which will come out in March 2016:
After that, there will be 4 other games or apps that won't be F2P and will be pay-for-download, released until March 2017.
Accordingly, their shares went down 9% on these news.
Yeah, they're completely clueless. I'm 50 points more convinced that the people running the company are morons.
Oh and Miyamoto supposedly talking about the NX:
(EDIT: the news blog had the release dates wrong, corrected.)
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/29/nintendo-unveils-first-smartphone-game-live-blog/
Aaaand they just announced a free2play smartphone title called "Miitomo" with in-app purchases that seems to be some kind of social interaction app like having an avatar and chatting with friends with no apparent purpose.. which will come out in March 2016:
After that, there will be 4 other games or apps that won't be F2P and will be pay-for-download, released until March 2017.
Accordingly, their shares went down 9% on these news.
Yeah, they're completely clueless. I'm 50 points more convinced that the people running the company are morons.
Oh and Miyamoto supposedly talking about the NX:
He almost got me excited with the "aggressive" sentence. But then he was talking about small plastic figures with a NFC tag inside and how he wants them to be readable by smartphones.
(EDIT: the news blog had the release dates wrong, corrected.)
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Instead of aggressive use of current IPs, I wish Nintendo would be aggressive in creating new IPs and ones catering to the tastes of modern core gamers. Nintendo is like Disney from the 80s. Disney managed to give Mickey Mouse a break and went on to prosper better than ever. Its about time Nintendo give Mario and other old ips a break to focus on newer IPs with broader appeal.
Whats the point of better hardware if its the same ole software?
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I like the Disney analogy. Disney reinvented itself and moved with the times. Every business needs to move with the times.
