Topic: What i would like to see on Nintendo's Next Gen handheld?

Not that I think the super high resolutions are required like some think, one thing a lot of people denouncing are talking about is performance.
I can tell you that a dedicated gaming machine can handle more with less power. From a technical standpoint at least.

Back in the day when the original Xbox had come out and I was looking at a multiplayer map in a halo game I remember a guy in my programming class saying to me, is that a PC game, and I told him no it was Halo. He says to me, well the xbox only has 512 mb's of ram and this cpu blah blah, how can it run that, and I said, yeah, but its dedicated. It makes a difference.

Gaming companies are able to utilize all the power of the hardware, where on an android device you have varying degrees of what they are able to use and with the added problem of them needing to test each phone/tablet individually to get the most out of it.
A handheld gaming device like a 3DS and Vita can be squeezed for everything the have got with little effort.

So as i'm reading a higher resolution screen will cut down on frame rate on a game, but i'm pretty sure there would be a cpu that will support 1080p gaming in 4 to 5 years on a handheld, if not then Nintendo should stick to 720p, also a longer battery life should also be taken into consideration but it is almost certain that Nintendo will bring in a more cpu power and a longer battery life for their next handheld.

3DS is going to be replaced well before 4 to 5 years.

I think Nintendo should give it another 3 years at the very least, utilising the New 3DS's hardware, rushing out the 4DS will make Nintendo rely on multiple models to be released making Nintendo lose out on sales and money. Nintendo should release one system that has it all releasing it at the right moment.

I would love to see some HD remakes of great Wii games like SMG, Metroid Prime Trilogy, and either Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword on the go would be outstanding. Kind of in the vein of the DKCR 3D port but HD remakes on the go.

Of course there will be, but I'm not willing to pay $400 for it, or have to play with it plugged in all the time because the battery only lasts 2 hours.

That would be nice since the 3DS is somewhere between the N64 and the Gamecube in terms of power, i'm speculating that this 4DS system will be between the Gamecube and and the Wii though both of these systems are very similar in terms of power. Other then that, it would most certainly be able to handle Gamecube games whilst for Wii games it would require more in terms of power.

The Nvidia Shield Tablet which has the Tegra K1 Chip making it one of the most powerful gaming tablets out there which only costs $235.

I'd say it will definitely be more powerful then the Wii and somewhere in the region of a PS360 or U power.

As long as Streetpass continues to be a thing next-gen I will be happy

Who made that tablet? Nvidia. Who made the chip? Nvidia. If you'd mentioned the Nexus 9, you'd have a point though.
However, you also need to keep in mind that tablets are rather large and can have a more desktop-like SoC. Hence why you never see a smartphone with a tegra, the battery life'd be awful. I think you're also a bit too simple-minded about how hardware works. There's more to it than just a CPU, and there's more to graphics than resolution and framerate.
Also, don't kid yourself on the 3DS's lifespan. The New 3DS is not a major hardware improvement, not by a long shot. Holiday 2017 at the very latest, mark my words.

There are smartphones that have used Tegra (e.g Motorola Atrix off the top of my head).

And the HTX One X (Some version of - the LTE one is Qualcomm).

Good games. That's all I care about, really.

E: Thanks for the correction. Did some research, seems Motorola used the Tegra 2 and HTC used the Tegra 3. Guess I should've said that you never see a smartphone with a Tegra K1. My point still stands, though.

A single screen, for starters.

I get the want for a single screen, but as far as a general design for a handheld, I can't think of anything better then the clamshell design, it trumps the PSP and Vita in ease of use and travel.

Maybe if they used the bottom screen area for extra controls, ala, a second circle pad.

Wisdom dictates that Nintendo will probably want backwards compatability with the 3DS, especially given how popular it is in Japan......so back to the dual screen.

That's definitely #1 in my book too...but I guess I'd also like a better control stick. The d-pad is already good--Nintendo is the only one who always gets it right--but an initial control stick more like that indented NeoGeo design would be awesome. I don't really like the entirely flat design of the 3DS one. A flat secondary one is fine, but the first one needs to be more precise.

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And AMD basically supplies the CPU to the X Box and Playstation, and the GPU for the Xbox, Playstation, and Wii U. What point are you trying to make, exactly?

Though honestly, I think Holiday 2017 is pushing it. I'd venture a guess at Holiday 2016, or at the most sometime mid 2017.

There are likely to be no more updates to the 3DS after this one. And we all know how Nintendo works. They update this stuff a few times, and by the last one, the next big thing is soon to come.

Game Boy. Game Boy Color. Game Boy Advance. Game Boy Advance SP. DS. DS XL. DSi. 3DS. 3DS XL. 2DS. 3DS XXXXX (or whatever they call this more powerful one)

As far as what I'd want on the new system? How about a second C-stick that isn't some weird, unmoving thing.

My point is that the Shield Tablet is cheap because Nvidia uses an SoC that they produce themselves.

They also use very cheap material for the controller part. I felt like a madcatz controller was better quality than the Shield (I haven't touched a madcatz controller since PS2/XBox days