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@CharlieGirl It's like Nintendo putting out crap like "Balloon Fight" on VC because they know folks buy whatever crumbs they toss.

@Snatcher go play them ALL The GBA games, the Prime series.. all are excellent! The way Retro Studios adapted 2d Metroidvania gameplay in 3D.. it was amazingly well done.

@neufel Nintendo could release a "Switch TV" and sell it for $150-200. Nvidia already has a Tegra X1 based Shield TV so it could be easily done. I doubt they will though because Nintendo tends to not do stuff that consumers would like. (Switch VC, anyone?) They're quite stubborn about such things and I've pretty much given up on Nintendo lately

@StarDust4Ever - Even mentioning him in the same sentence as this "mod" is an insult to Ben Heck. This is a crap case mod at best.

cringe

Federation Force is like Indy 4. it never happened.

@KIREEK nintendo is so backwards thru would never do something that cool. We're lucky if Nintendo releases their OWN games on VC.. much less fan games. So sad that the entire ROM library has been available for decades on the net but Nintendo won't even let us BUY most of them. Year after year they turn down free money

@aaronsullivan They could make another Zero Mission type game or remake some of the older games in HD. I'd like to see the Prime trilogy in HD and portable. That would be a fairly easy thing to produce to hold people over. Seriously, Nintendo could have TONS of games available for Switch this year just by releasing HD ports of classics. This would help with Switch sales and those higher adoption rates would encourage third party support. Then by holidays 2017 or early next year have Metroid sequels ready to drop.

It got a 9/10 on Steam.. so, ya know.. PC master race, etc

@Xaessya VR existed before Virtual Boy.. so the VB is more like a cousin than a grandfather

I wanted to do the exact thing but with a Wii motherboard instead. There's a portablize-me hack that makes it run with minimal components and you can actually CUT parts of the pcb off to make it small. I never did it because only certain revisions of Wii hardware are easily trimmed and i figured I'd destroy a few motherboards in the trimming process. Also, I'm lazy.

I just want to play games with a gamepad and buttons. It worked fine for GameCube and has been working fine for Sony and Microsoft. I did enjoy playing Metroid Prime with the Wii remote. It made aiming so much better because I'm a mouse keyboard guy (I hate FPS games with an analog stick..) however, the meat and potatoes of console gaming is with a controller on one screen. All the other stuff alienated developers and put Nintendo in the mess they're currently in. The Switch just needs to play games on the go or at home. The more crap you try to shoehorn in the worse it will be. A jack of all trades, master of none is not what Nintendo needs right now.

@Anti-Matter i could see it supporting Wii remotes because they can be had cheaply but i think adding wii u gamepad support would fragment they user base too much and devs probably wouldn't bother to add support for it because few would have it.

@jimi what do you mean, you can't use switch when it's out of juice? You don't think there's a charge cable? So if i want to take this thing on a trip Nintendo would make me take the dock with me? lol c'mon, man. There WILL be charge cables for the mains and to plug in your car just like every portable device on the planet.

@Ryu_Niiyama or make the space between the joycon ( the grip thingy) have a touchpad like a laptop

The Wii remote has a IR camera in it and the "sensor" bar wasn't a sensor at all. It was a completely passive device that simply put out IR light. This is how people were able to use candles in place of a "sensor" bar. Emitter bar would have been a better, more accurate name.. Anyways, for this to work the joy cons would need a camera where the shoulder buttons are and i doubt that's the case considering how small these controllers are.

@AlexSora89 these aren't official.

@PorridgeParlour +1 on that Dpad idea! I think that's really a no brainer for Nintendo or some 3rd party to do that. Hell, 3rd parties could go nuts making all sort of different configurations to slot into the Switch. Personally, I want a touchpad to replace the right analog for FPS games. I'm a PC guy so this would be super nice to have. As a matter of fact the grip thingy that the controllers slot into should HAVE a touchpad in the middle like some Android TV devices have. That would be super cool for navigating menus and would open up the possibility for RTS type games to be more easily play on TV. Basically, with that addition the Switch could be all the things that the Steam TV promised to be and MUCH more.

There were very few games that really took advantage of this on Wii U right? Other than inventory screens or maps it wasn't really anything groundbreaking. All the Wii U gamepad did was add cost to the system that could have been better spent on horsepower. Plus, it alienated developers because like every Nintendo system since the Wii, they had to do something special just to port their games over. Now with Switch, you have traditional controls and one screen. That means much more 3rd party support and that's a good thing. I would just about guarantee we will see replacement "joy-cons" for stuff like rockband/guitar hero and maybe... maybe a trackpad type device that could slot into the right side instead of the right analog for us PC guys who prefer the precision of a mouse in FPS games. Probably not from Nintendo but a 3rd party could easily do it.

@FX102A I have a feeling that in addition to the dock there will also use a charge cable and AV out for a more portable setup.. I hope

@BenAV If the controllers could lock in the top and bottom edges they could fit dual screen games in landscape mode.. maybe Nintendo has thought of this Probably doesn't matter though because from the looks of things there is no touchscreen. Touchscreen would complicate things too much though as that feature would only work when it's not docked. Nintendo is going back to their roots of just games with a gamepad like Sony and MS. I think that was a great decision because now 3rd parties will be swarming to the Switch. Portable Skyrim and Zelda? Holy crap. This thing is going to SELL

Raspberry Pi will get you very accurate emulation for $40.. and do every system you could ever want, not just NES.. i really don't see the appeal of this thing.

@Crumpet123 if we dont hear anything in October I predict an analyst prediction of a November reveal

If Nintendo was smart they would wait until a billion people were playing Pokemon GO and Super Mario Run and then aggressively push NX ads through both apps. One day everyone downloads an update and it forces them to sit through a 5-10 second NX commercial next time they open the app. The exposure would be huge

This doesn't bother me. If Nintendo wants to do mobile spin offs or phone apps that tie into the main game like Bethesda did with fallout 4 that's great. I really don't even care if Nintendo is exclusive on their own hardware. I just want to play their game. However, Apple is the LAST place i would choose to play Nintendo games Android,PC..xbox.. anything but IOS for me personally.

@World Yeah, well in addition to all the other stuff I mentioned I also have two original NES consoles several carts and an Everdrive.. Even still I want a NES mini. lol

@World that's very true... but there are easier ways to enjoy emulation. Android TV, home brew channel on Wii, etc. I can't get how any serious retro gamer could do without a device like that. I've got emulators on my phone, PSP,PS Vita, my PC, laptop, Wii, Raspberry pi. I even had a NES emulator on my PSone back in the day. lol. I'm nuts over this stuff.

@KevTastic84 yeah, the dunno why people buy these poopy clone consoles instead of getting a raspberry pi.. sure they aren't the easiest to set up but they aren't impossible and there are tons of videos online. I've got one with iBuffalo usb Snes pads which are EXCELLENT. Nicest third party SNES pads I've ever used.

I can't believe all the butthurt. This is a smart move on Nintendo's part. They've been trying to sell Wii U consoles but it's just not happening because of NX. Everyone who hasn't bought a Wii U is waiting, myself included. Time to cut their losses and port some Wii U games to the much larger audience of 3DS. Nintendo merged the handheld and console development teams together long ago so games being shared across both was bound to happen and will continue moving forward. NX is unified and exclusivity will end

@Ikramali exactly. NX or GTFO. Because Zelda.

@rjejr The large majority of Nvidia's revenue comes from selling chips. Sure, when a new video card comes out they'll make a reference design but after that 3rd parties take that and run with it. Nobody can say with certainty that no more Tegra powered mobile devices are coming. Tegra is used in many tablets and phones from Acer, Asus, Google, HTC, HP, SGP, Toshiba and many others. To assume that Tegra for mobile is dead when it's been used in so many devices just doesn't add up to me.

There's a major problem with these rumors that nobody seems to be addressing.. If requires touchscreen input how can I do that if the handheld is in the dock across the room?! If the game is designed for motions controls how will I play the game on the bus with the NX in my hands and controllers attached?

It seems to me that if the NX has all these different modes of operation game developers will either have to design the game to support ALL of them or certain games will only be playable at home while docked and others only when handheld. The other option is that developers wont make use of the extra functions at all to avoid the problem all together.

@rjejr i agree. I don't see how this confirms anything. IF the whole purpose of shield was to develop the Tegra tech in hopes of drawing in a big customer like Nintendo then i could see why Shield would no long be needed. Maybe Nintendo was using Tegra in dev kits as a place holder while still negotiating with Nvidia and other companies for the final design. Nintendo may have signed a deal with Nvidia so they then cancelled Shield 2 to focus on NX.. OR Nintendo went with a different chip vendor and Nvidia considered this a defeat and axed the Shield 2 to focus on using Tegra in self driving cars

@graysoncharles yeah, i knew that Android, Linux and windows 8/10 all have been ported to ARM and x86 but i didn't think it was that simple for games and apps to be ported to both. I'm no software developer so i could be wrong. I do know that with game engines they often optimize the code in assembly language and i would think that having two different CPUs with two different instruction sets wouldn't be idea. This won't matter as much for games using Unreal 4 or Unity since those engines have both been optimized for ARM and x86 as far as i know. This would mean that the two systems couldn't use the same cartridge/disc on both. Well, i guess they could put both the ARM and x86 code on the same cart.. hmm. Dammit Nintendo just tell us already! lol

@renaryuugufan92 it seems a little odd that they would unify the handheld and console development in one division but then have two separate hardware platforms (x86 and ARM). I'm not saying it's impossible but If they want to attract 3rd parties this doesn't seem like the way to do it. I also don't agree with folks who are saying we'll get an AMD console and an Nvidia handheld. That just sounds counter intuitive

At first i thought that was Zangief driving the car.. lol

@KoopaTheGamer even an announcement of an announcement about the NX would be more than we currently have!! :-/

@Zach777 exactly! Nintendo could hire this guy, polish the game up a little bit and release it on VC.

@gatorboi352 I loved new DooM as well and i had high expectations because i played the original back in high school. If that came to NX and the fallout games.. portable?! Holy poo.. NX would sell like hotcakes!

@gcunit lol. Can they run two x1 in SLI mode? 😉 Seriously though, the X1 will be two years old by the time the NX launches. It's a 20nm chip based on Maxwell architecture. I'd be about 99% sure the NX will have a 16nm, Pascal based Tegra SoC.. Nvidia is being very quiet about their upcoming Tegra chips and future Shield products. I think this is why. We know they're working on it though.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9902/nvidia-discloses-2016-tegra

Meh... give us a real Metroid game or gtfo

@Pahvi blasphemy! unless you mean because of super metroid pretty much treading the same ground as the original Metroid and being superior in every way..

@Peterjr1 YES. I had to mute the video. I couldn't take it. Also, the game is pretty ugly, even for a retro-ish art style. I dunno.. i think I'll pass on this one. I'd rather just go back and play and old zelda game over again.. or maybe Earthbound

@NinChocolate has their been any shortage of 2D mario games lately though? I'd be happy with ports of the Wii U and 3ds games i haven't played yet.

3D Mario, Metroid 2D and 3D, Zelda and F-Zero... basically all the stuff the Wii U failed to deliver.

That skinny, blue-hatted Mario is a bit disturbing to me...

@rjejr i think because NX is both handheld and a console they are just referring to it as a unified platform.

@Action51 you can read anything you want into news like this. I could say it's good news because Nintendo is shaking things up and restructuring so they can go all in with NX. It's still just wishful thinking. We really know nothing. :-/

@Jamotello yeah, creating a division to make "western" games but then having a Japanese person oversee it doesn't sound like the best idea. I mean, it can work out ok but often their hands are tied