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Nintendo's rumored "NX" console has been officially announced as the Nintendo Switch, a console-handheld hybrid. The Switch may be Nintendo's last stand in the console wars:
Previously code-named NX, now named the Nintendo Switch, the device looks like a tablet computer with controllers that attach to its sides. The device was revealed in a short "teaser" video posted on YouTube.
One analyst said the device could be Nintendo's "last shot" at selling a home console. "The Wii U was a car crash, basically," said Paul Jackson of the Ovum consultancy. They fudged the communication and confused everybody with the controller and what the screen was for. As a result it sold about a tenth of what the original Wii sold."
The Wii U was rapidly outsold by Sony's PS4 and Microsoft's Xbox One, although Nintendo has enjoyed success with its handheld 3DS device. The new Switch console can be seated in a dock to play games on a television, or used as a stand-alone portable device. Games will be delivered on small cartridges - a nod to older Nintendo consoles.
The console will use a customized NVIDIA Tegra system-on-a-chip. The core count/type is unknown, as is the choice of Maxwell or Pascal GPU.
The PS4 and Xbox One mid-cycle refreshes could allow Nintendo some breathing room to compete on graphics/processing capabilities, since developers will be forced to support the older consoles:
Strangely, though, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 may provide some relief. They aren't being abandoned – which means developers will already be focused on building games that scale down to less powerful hardware. It's not unreasonable to imagine the Switch will offer visual quality on par, or very nearly on par, with the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 throughout its lifespan.
Also at WSJ.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday October 22 2016, @08:35PM
But I just don't see devs wanting to mess with trying to port their triple a titles to what is basically a glorified cellphone/tablet chip which is what Nvidia has been pushing Tegra as. They can choose X86 and that will give them the PS4 AND the Xbone AND the PC with only minor tweaks as its all bog standard X86 but to support the Switch they are gonna have to basically do a rewrite and also focus on power consumption since the others are running on the mains and this can just as easily be running on battery.
So I have a feeling its gonna be a "chicken and the egg" just like the Wii U, the devs won't support it until they see its a bonafide hit as they don't want to sink millions into making a separate port for a 'console' that may be another bomb and as we saw with Wii U there just isn't enough hardcore Nintendo fanbois to sell a console with no third party support. Whether Nintendo likes it or not people want their Tomb Raiders and Battlefield Is and Maddens and if they can't get them from Nintendo? They go somewhere else. And before someone brings up the 3DS it was not only cheaper than the home consoles but was pushed as strictly a portable, by bringing this into the living room people are gonna compare it to the other 2 and I think they will find it wanting.
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