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Tom Phillips, Eurogamer wrote: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.
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.
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.
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
The NX is almost exactly what we all thought it was
except CARTRIDGES, Y'ALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUOgIgLqOQ 
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God the DS Lite was so good...
That is what I thought was the coolest thing about the Nintendo console, a huge back catalogue of games.
(This could also be since not many people make games for it)
Satans..... hints.....
Though this is Nintendo, I imagine they wouldn't move forward if they didn't at least find a way to have the battery life be at 3DS levels.
The six Wii U games will probably all get ports anyway
But yeah, I agree that the one-generation-back thing they've been doing is great. I'm kind of confused at your stance on it, though, Blake, because they didn't even START having console back-compat until the Wii, which is after you got out of the game. SNES, N64, and GameCube didn't have that.
Man, I'm glad the Bombcast switched to recording Tuesdays to do it live, I want to hear their take on all this.
My Steam
If it's the size of the Wii U gamepad I'm going to be upset. That's way too fucking big for a proper portable system, Chincy be damned.
Cause if they also mean the Virtual Console, that'll be insane.
Introducing the Official NX JNCO Jeans
JNxCO Jeans
fuck
yes
This isn't a Nintendo announcement. It's a rumor.
No, you'll play it on your television.
It's a major games website reporting what several of their trusted sources have told them
IT'S REAL. IT'S ALL REAL. EVERY LEAK CONFIRMED. EVERY WISH COME TRUE CONFIRMED. PORTABLE/LIVING ROOM TRI-SCREEN GLASSES-FREE VR/AR CROSS-PLATFORM NETWORK + HOBBY GRADE CAMPAIGNS CONFIRMED.
Right, a rumor.
It's 100% not an announcement, nor is it from Nintendo.
yeah like at this point the announcement is the only thing left, so you're right its not an announcement
But I basically consider this to be a done deal
Big sites like this don't report this unless they can back it up.
joel
You're doing that thing where its pretty clear what I meant and I already capitulated but you're stiill being pedantic
I used the wrong word
But it doesn't really matter, its not an announcement but this is concrete enough that I'm going to proceed as if its true
well
I guess I always liked cartridges because of nostalgia
and I like detachable controllers
aside from that, I really couldn't care less about any of it. The battery will suck ass and it will be too big to fit in your pocket. It will be underpowered I assume so that'll kill third party games.
I also doubt there will be a way to transfer games over from the Wii and Wii U
I disagree that I'm just being pedantic. I think it's a very important distinction. But I don't really want to fight about that right now so I will drop it. Sorry.
I put my XL in my pocket yeah
I do!
it's what they're for!
nintendo killed third party games on their platforms over a decade ago and they havent cared about being underpowered in almost as long
I've put every portable other than the original Game Boy (which was too thick) in my pocket. Why would I carry a bag around just to hold my Game Boy when the whole point of pockets is to let you carry things around without needing a bag? The DS line (and its likely prototype, the GBA-SP) are even designed around this fact with it's handy, screen-protecting clamshell design.
yep
i'm actually going to play monster hunter now because i'll be able to play it on a fucking television with a fucking controller
http://www.audioentropy.com/
or that there would be some kind of promise about improving digital offerings of old titles
nobody who has ever said "I disagree that I am just being pedantic" was ever proven to be right
Speed
Speed this might mean we get to play pokemon on a tv
again
I know this is a trap and I am trying very hard not to walk into it.
oh this sounds like they've totally given up on home consoles
it mostly sounds like they're making a new handheld with a built in Super Gameboy
http://www.audioentropy.com/
What if digital only is an option? Nintendo said they considered just not using physical media but decided against it but that doesn't necessarily mean they're requiring every game to have a physical option.