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My WiiU controller remained unused as I always used the Pro Controller, for the entirety of my ownership. Always on, always plugged in, covered in dust, because it had to be.

 

How anyone at Nintendo R&D thought that was a good idea I have no idea. It was like a Gamecube that had to have a lava lamp attached.

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22 minutes ago, womblingfree said:

My WiiU controller remained unused as I always used the Pro Controller, for the entirety of my ownership. Always on, always plugged in, covered in dust, because it had to be.

 

How anyone at Nintendo R&D thought that was a good idea I have no idea. It was like a Gamecube that had to have a lava lamp attached.

 

You're acting as if it's like the Xbone Kinect.

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4 hours ago, Alex W. said:

It's a utility patent so that's unlikely to be an object they're actually making. It's just an illustration.

 

I want to know why the patent people in so many tech companies have such weird hands.

 

It's actually a patent of their new handheld: the Nintendo 1DS.

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4 hours ago, womblingfree said:

...How anyone at Nintendo R&D thought that was a good idea I have no idea. It was like a Gamecube that had to have a lava lamp attached.

It was a massive gamble, just as the Wii and it's controller was. Had second screen gaming really taken off then Nintendo would have been ahead of the curve.

 

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Well you can't blame them for putting their company's massmarket hopes on the same overwhelmingly popular concept as the VMU, GBA-GC link, DS-Wii link, PSP-PS3 link, Xbox Smartglass, Xbox One Smartglass, and Vita-PS4 link.

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2 hours ago, Alex W. said:

Well you can't blame them for putting their company's massmarket hopes on the same overwhelmingly popular concept as the VMU, GBA-GC link, DS-Wii link, PSP-PS3 link, Xbox Smartglass, Xbox One Smartglass, and Vita-PS4 link.

Or the DS.

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Nintendo NX is a portable console with detachable controllers

It also connects to your TV, and runs cartridges.


Nintendo's upcoming NX will be a portable, handheld console with detachable controllers, a number of sources have confirmed to Eurogamer.

On the move, NX will function as a high-powered handheld console with its own display. So far so normal - but here's the twist: we've heard the screen is bookended by two controller sections on either side, which can be attached or detached as required.

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.

For more on the console's power, Digital Foundry has a deep-dive look at the chip Nintendo has chosen as the centrepiece of NX, according to numerous well-placed sources: Nvidia's powerful Tegra mobile processor.

NX will use game cartridges as its choice of physical media, multiple sources have also told us. 

Considering NX's basis as a handheld first and foremost, the choice may not come as too much of a surprise - although we have heard the suggestion Nintendo recommends a 32GB cartridge, which is small when considering the size of many modern games.

Naturally, we expect digital game downloads will also be available. We were told Nintendo considered but then decided against making a system which supported digital downloads only.

NX will be powered by Nvidia's Tegra mobile processor.

It's not the first time cartridge-based media has been mooted for NX. Back in May, eagle-eyed fans spotted The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's trademark included cartridge-based games. This was a change from Nintendo's usual wording for home console trademarks, which only refer to digital downloads and discs.

Due to the radical change in hardware design and internal technology, we've been told by one source that there are no plans for backwards compatibility.

Another source said the system would run on a new operating system from Nintendo. It won't, contrary to some earlier rumours, simply run on Android.

Inside the NX, as stated above, the system will harness Nvidia's powerful mobile processor Tegra. Graphical comparisons with current consoles are difficult due to the vastly different nature of the device - but once again we've heard Nintendo is not chasing graphical parity. Quite the opposite, it is sacrificing power to ensure it can squeeze all of this technology into a handheld, something which also tallies with earlier reports.

Finally, we've heard from one source that NX planning has recently moved up a gear within Nintendo ahead of the console's unveiling, which is currently slated for September.

After the confused PR fiasco of the Wii U launch, the company is already settling on a simple marketing message for NX - of being able to take your games with you on the go.

Everything we know about Xbox One S What HDR gaming means, what supports 4K and how to use Kinect.

NX is set to launch alongside Zelda - but what else?

Nintendo always designs its hardware to show off specific game concepts - and it remains to be seen how the system will showcase the next Mario, or even how the NX version of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - the only first-party game confirmed so-far - may differ when played on the device.

Previously, however, we've heard reports of various Wii U games reappearing as updated NX ports - Splatoon and Smash Bros. have both been mooted. And then there's Pikmin 4, which Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed to Eurogamer just over a year ago. 

"Nintendo has not made any new official announcements regarding NX which is due to launch in March 2017," a Nintendo spokesperson told Eurogamer when contacted about this story. "As such [we're] unable to comment on the various rumours and speculations circulating."

 

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-26-nx-is-a-portable-console-with-detachable-controllers

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I don't see how they can make a handheld with control that matches a dedicated pad, seeing as we're going to be playing the same games.  It's either gona be total genius, or a huge mistake.

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Works for me. I really want to get into Monster Hunter but just have no tolerance for playing deeper titles on a handheld (just as an example). If it means the single platform frees them up to release a bit more first party stuff more quickly that's a definite bonus.

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Not sure I understand the detachable controller bit.  Is that so you can make into an iPad? 

 

I was hoping for the console & handheld to be separate machines that share media.  This doesn't sound too appealing.

 

Maybe I'll get Zelda on Wii U after all.

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5 minutes ago, JPickford said:

Not sure I understand the detachable controller bit.  Is that so you can make into an iPad? 

 

I was hoping for the console & handheld to be separate machines that share media.  This doesn't sound too appealing.

 

Maybe I'll get Zelda on Wii U after all.

 

I took that as meaning you play it at home with the detachable controller, then you detach it and play it away from home with built in controls.   Like a 3ds that plugs into your tv and has a controller port.

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5 minutes ago, JPickford said:

Not sure I follow.  There are 2 sets of controls?

 

Yeah, controls on the device like any portable, and it has a controller port and a TV output (via a dock). That's my understanding.

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If the controls come off does that put the kibosh on the free form display idea?

 

Eurogamer spectulates that you could play a two-player game on the go, each of you having one half of the controller. Like those PSP and Vita games where you sit at opposite ends of the console, but more comfortable. Turn any bar table into a cocktail cabinet, maybe.

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I hardly portable game at all, and would rather just a home console thanks. 

 

Doesn't immediately sound like a device that's going to sell shit loads either. This can't be their main idea that they were worried about other companies stealing surely?

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