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Alex W.

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6 minutes ago, Fatsam said:

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?

 

They wouldn't be worried about Sony or Microsoft stealing it, but Apple's been spending the last year trying to convince game developers that slapping half a controller on each end of an iPhone or using a bluetooth pad with a TV box should be the future of gaming.

 

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As far as I remember I liked the DS from the off.  And the Wii.  And the Wii U.  

 

Now we don't really know much about NX but it all sounds rubbish to me.   Maybe Nintendo have done this leak to lower our expectations before they reveal something good about NX.

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Alex W.

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I wouldn't be so sure that the dock has no actual processing power. If the handheld physically goes into the dock, it might be in their interests to put a slightly beefier GPU with more RAM in there so that it can render natively at HDTV resolutions. Put a USB 3.0 port on that bad boy.

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Alex W.

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6 minutes ago, JPickford said:

So where are bookended controls that are detachable?   Why would I detach them.

 

I figure you'll snap them together and use them as your controller when you're playing on the TV, like the MOGA pad I showed above but in two separate pieces. So you don't need to buy a separate pad.

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6 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

I wouldn't be so sure that the dock has no actual processing power. If the handheld physically goes into the dock, it might be in their interests to put a slightly beefier GPU with more RAM in there so that it can render natively at HDTV resolutions. Put a USB 3.0 port on that bad boy.

 

I think they'll quite fancy the idea of the Wii U dock setup, simple, light, just power, display and ports. They dont want any bottlenecks of the processing power coming from 2 separate boxes.

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4 minutes ago, yashiro said:

If it's meant to replace gameboy too, I'm curious about the size of this thing.

 

I'm picturing the PSVita, but manufactured by Nintendo. 5-inch touchscreen, same good little analogue sticks and buttons, better triggers, etc.

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6 minutes ago, yashiro said:

If it's meant to replace gameboy too, I'm curious about the size of this thing.

 

Gameboy? I hate to break it to you but it's been 3ds for a while, they dont use that branding.

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Alex W.

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5 minutes ago, angel said:

 

I think they'll quite fancy the idea of the Wii U dock setup, simple, light, just power, display and ports. They dont want any bottlenecks of the processing power coming from 2 separate boxes.

 

Yeah, I suppose there's not much reason for them to overcomplicate things if the whole idea is that developers just have to target one system for home and away.

 

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15 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

 

They wouldn't be worried about Sony or Microsoft stealing it, but Apple's been spending the last year trying to convince game developers that slapping half a controller on each end of an iPhone or using a bluetooth pad with a TV box should be the future of gaming.

 

 

That's not really true. They've provided the API and hardware support for third parties to sell controllers for their products. If they were trying to actively convince game developers that slapping half a controllers on each end of an iPhone is the future of gaming then I would at least expect Apple to provide their own game controller solution, and remove the restriction that every game providing support for a controller also provide a touchscreen-control fallback.

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14 minutes ago, angel said:

 

Gameboy? I hate to break it to you but it's been 3ds for a while, they dont use that branding.

 

I've long argued (shouted to the wind) for them to bring back the Gameboy brand. Still stand by it, particularly now with the retro selling so well to millenials etc. Even kids have heard of the brand.

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5 minutes ago, Darhkwing said:

heard it might be able to use a SIM card for mobile gaming? 

 

be interesting to see what battery life is.

 

You'll probably be able to buy a brick Game Boy sized battery pack to go along with it.

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Alex W.

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9 minutes ago, andy_h said:

 

That's not really true. They've provided the API and hardware support for third parties to sell controllers for their products. If they were trying to actively convince game developers that slapping half a controllers on each end of an iPhone is the future of gaming then I would at least expect Apple to provide their own game controller solution, and remove the restriction that every game providing support for a controller also provide a touchscreen-control fallback.

 

Well I never said they were consistent about it, but there was a run of WWDC events there where this was Definitely When Real Games Were Coming To iPhone because now their chips were As Powerful As Last Generation Consoles and they'd finally Given People Real Controllers.

 

And then basically forgot about the whole idea beyond being a profitable App Store category.

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