Nintendo Could Sweep THREE Markets with the NX.

I'm going to speculate - with the recent rumor from EuroGamer in mind - what the NX might be, what it is capable of and why I think it's a genius move (if true).

Firstly, what it is.

The portable device will not only be a handheld console, so to speak, but after detaching the controller add-ons it becomes a 'phablet' (Over-sized smartphone). With a 5.7-6" 1280x720 screen, perhaps 1360x768.

Nintendo will have their own OS running on the phablet that supports other cellular carriers (strictly via SIM, no modifications). It will grant access to the eShop and also the Google Play Store, in which they will also capitalize on the success of Pokémon GO and feature their other smartphone games too. With the instant massive library in the Google Play Store.

This alone will take a steaming turd on the Mobile industry and Nintendo takes the cake. Simply because it's not only a phablet, but also Nintendo's dedicated portable device with their high quality titles available only on the NX. This is what I think Ubisoft were talking about when saying it will recapture the Wii's casual audience, by snatching up the Smartphone demographic.

A powerful portable device, that is also a smartphone. This portable device will already be 4 times more powerful than the Wii U in terms of raw graphical performance thanks to the Tegra X1 - and it's portable. A native 720p screen resolution will allow for even more headroom in power. Which I think will also contain around 2-3, maybe 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM. Tegra X1's default configuration.

Nintendo once again dominates the handheld console market, what's left of it anyway.

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Now, the console market.

Remember the Supplemental Computing Device patent? The base unit that is said to be a part of the NX could very well be a reference to this. However, since the portable device alone can run everything the NX will have to offer, the SCD will be sold separately and be a choice. To spread out the consumer costs of the NX as a whole.

The SCD could quite simply contain the processing power of the NX (Tegra X1) and already match, or slightly more powerful than the PS4 Neo's rumored specifications. The raw power of the X1 is around 1.2TFLOPs, so the portable alone would be pretty strong. (Xbox One is 1.3TFLOPs, Emily Rogers anyone?). A single SCD would allow for rendering games at native 1080p on your TV with some additional graphical and other computational improvements. Perhaps more SCDs will allow 4K?

We all know Nintendo loves their hardware add-ons (N64DD, plethora of SNES Coprocessor attachments etc.)

Because of this SCD technology, Nintendo will essentially futureproof their console by simply allowing additional SCDs to be attached to one another - beating out anything Sony and Microsoft can throw at them from a hardware power standpoint. Eventually I would assume Nintendo will make more powerful SCDs available (perhaps a 2-in-1 configuration), so as to avoid huge stacks of SCDs.

I would assume the SCDs will work together with the hardware inside the portable to share calculations that need to be computed. Using perhaps a wireless form of Thunderbolt technology? Or perhaps when you want to use the SCDs you have to attach the portable to the SCDs like a dock and use separate controllers.

There is also some speculation that the NX may even contain the illusive Tegra X2. It's been around for a while but used in nothing. Since the X2 is supposed to use the new Pascal architecture, it wouldn't surprise me that the NX will use a modified/down-spec version of it to take advantage of the brilliant TDP the architecture offers over Maxwell - this is the stuff Nintendo drools over.

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Nintendo could also capitalize on collectors by making themed controller attachments instead of basic white or black ones. Different colours, artwork or even button layouts - Gamecube themed with Octagonal sticks? One can dream.

Price-wise, I think the portable alone will be around £200-250/$250-300 as it is the main attraction. SCDs could be around £90-120/$120-150 since they're simply raw hardware boxes that have a single purpose.

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Anyway, I hope that was coherent; I literally wrote this as I processed it in my head. What are your thoughts?

Submitted by Roynerer | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016