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Nintendo NX (20 Oct 16 reveal)

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So, Nintendo is finally letting the cat out of the bag today, opportune time to get an NX thread rolling.

 

Most of what is known about the NX until today's reveal is only from leaks and rumours at this time, but it's a fact that all such noises point to a hybrid console (solo-tablet-pluggable-into-TV, think the Wii U controller with LCD as the 'core' console without a large disc-spinning base unit).

 

Do you think Nintendo are having their Dreamcast moment with the NX, and will ultimately do a Sega if the NX ends up "flopping" like the Wii U?

 

Or do you see legs in that hardware approach, maybe continuity (Wii, no LCD controller > Wii U, with LCD controller > NX, is the LCD controller)?

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I REALLY hope it does well for them.

The WiiU is brilliant...and I play on my 3DS daily still...but from a commercial point I hope NX catches the publics imagination.

I'll be watching at 3pm today for sure!!! :D

Will you be getting it??

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Far too early to tell.

 

The 3DS saw so little action that it was eBay'd.

 

The WiiU has seen little action other than Youtubing and a MK8 family session once in a blue moon. It's a great machine, but killed by lack of 3rd party support. Just like what happened to the Gamecube.

 

And I'll still be after a PS4 and PSVR (2nd handers, I'm not made of gold :D) first: I've been after, and waiting 20+ years for, semi-decent and user-friendly VR gaming.

 

Though if it's Kodi-able (highly doubtful) and near 3DS money (more likely, I'm guessing the NX is its replacement-after-a-fashion), then the Wii U and some other gadgets might go to part fund one.

 

I have only so much free time to devote to gaming, which seems to be ever less these days...so I'm in a fight to try and keep more gadgets from getting in! :D

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Well there you have it, a sort of jumped up 3DS you might play on a TV but probably won't.

 

Looks alot like someone will rob the idea and start knocking out Generic tablets in much the same fashion.

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Well there you have it, a sort of jumped up 3DS you might play on a TV but probably won't.
Far more than that, IMHO.

 

It looks like they've absolutely nailed the synergy of hybrid console gaming and local multi-playing.

 

As a long-time gamer who's tried many different combinations to achieve similarly 'hybrid gaming' over the years (PII and PIII PC tablets years before the tablet format 'broke through', early Android tablets like the Advent Vega and more recent ones), I can tell you that this is no mean feat.

 

The 2-player implementation, each with one of the controlling halves (Mario Kart gameplay sequence in the VW minivan), is genius.

Looks alot like someone will rob the idea and start knocking out Generic tablets in much the same fashion.
Besides NVidia's latest Shield implementation, they've long existed.

 

JXD and GPD are the current leaders on that niche segment (Android tablets with built-in gaming hardware controls), but very few people are aware of them outside of Asia.

 

I had a JXD S7800B earlier in the year, ARM 7 + Tegra 1 on Android 4.4, and if the reveal video contents bear any truth to the actual functionality, it was far poorer as a 'gaming hybrid' than this looks.

 

Lots of faffing (and 'specialist user know-how') to get multiplayer gameplay on TV, and only permitted through emus (since no Android games do 'local multiplayer' properly, other than a few platform-specific games like OUYA's Bombsquad). Knowing how to use HDMI out, how to sideload emus, how to pair PS3 pads through BT or how to install the xbox (-to PC) USB dongle, where to get ROMs and how to sideload them, how to configure multiple pads in the emus, etc, etc. 'Painful' indeed, unless you know what you're doing (and even then, no walk in the park).

 

This plug-and-play implementation and all-wireless controls/local multiplay in a kidult design package looks like a win, particularly once paired with Nintendo's IP (new Mario 3D and new Mario Kart to launch with, by the looks of the reveal video). This looks designed for the kids who grew up with a Wii 10 years ago, methinks it's going to fly off the shelves come Thanksgiving/Xmas 2017.

 

Yup, colour me deffo interested, but same as with the PSVR, I'm gonna hold out until late/Xmas 2017 to observe sales, support and reviews by that time.

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$299 in US, €329 in EU, so probably £299 here :o

 

Way-way-way too expensive at launch, relative to the current XB1/PS4 price-performance level, and the 13 Jan 'reveal' did not reveal that much, other than third-party developers like EA are effectively hedging their bets rather than fully and frankly supporting the console. I wouldn't go so far as to prematurely call that its death knell, but the fact is that it's a recurring pattern (Wii U anyone?).

 

I just pushed it off my radar for a year. I'd expect that many other potential early adopters have done so too, and gone on to pre-order Zelda on Wii U instead (I haven't; after recently seeing some Ace Combat 7 PSVR footage in Japan, games budget this year goes onto PS4/PSVR).

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Thread update: it is released today, and known as Switch.

 

EDGE just gave Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Switch a 10/10.

 

It's starting well for them :)

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I ll maybe get this one when dragon quest and other games come out.

No way that I paying 300 £ + 60 £ for Skyrim !?.

 

I am interested in RPG games not some simulation of opening champagne bottle.

Actually, that stroking movements on the commercial reminds me on something not

for family forum like this one.

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