SemiAccurate: Nintendo NX Handheld To Use Nvidia Tegra-Based SoC

Currently seeing this on my easycap capture card works great. I just brought the wrong wii cable lol. its black and white

I better look into this…

Based on combining all old and new rumors and patents and unconfirmed insider information, this is what I am imagining NX to be. (It will be interesting to see how close, or completely off the mark I turn out to be).

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I think the NX (named something entirely different) will launch as a Handheld (resembling a cross betwern a PS Vita a 3DS and a WiiU Gamepad) with a single large, irregularly shaped touch screen as it’s primary display. To maximize screen real estate while keeping hardware size down for comfort and portability, the screen will extend into the edges of the sticks and buttons, but not past and beyond them, creating an odd shape with indents in either end.

The hardware will be built around architecture that more closely resembles a 3DS crossed with the most powerful Tablets/Smartphones on the market than a PS4 or XBO, and will be able to perform at levels comparable to both (exceeding the power of WiiU), but as usual, falling behind in a few technical areas compared to the competition.

This hardware will be designed around Linkability as its primary gimmick. How that will work is that, any time it is working with other NX hardware, they will share processing power and become marginally more powerful together. When playing local multiplayer with another NX handheld, the game will actually run better, as an example.

This handheld unit will actually be the core HEART of the NX gameplay experience … even when playing on the TV. Utilizing reverse-gamepad streaming tech, the NX handheld will come with a Roku stick style HDMI dongle which clips seamlessly into the back that streams video to your TV, making it operate like a console. In this configuration, it will sream only a max of 900p video, but most Nintendo games will only run 720. There Will also be a charging cradle you can set the NX on and play using some sort of NX Pro controller at home (sold separately).

When using the Portable as your Controller, it would essentially play just like using the WiiU gamepad, making all WiiU and 3DS games fully Virtual Console compatable, as it would have the 2 screen setup this way.

Later on, a PS-TV style home box will be released which would essentially be ANOTHER NX, but with wired HDMI to your TV with full 1080p output capacity at a very affordable price. ($99.99?) However, just like when you link two handhelds together, if you use the TV box linked with the NX handheld as your controller, they become more powerful TOGETHER, unlocking full 1080p, smoother framerate, more particle effects, etc. This would also apply to local multiplayer parties, so if you had one Home Box and 4 people with NX handhelds all linked together playing the same multiplayer game, it could run at the same rock-solid framerate and resolution as it does when playing single player. Not making it suddenly more powerful than PS4Neo … but just solid and reinforced.

Because the Handheld would actually be the Primary brain, even when playing at home, ALL physical release NX games would be sold on tiny, 3DS style game cards, up to about 64 GB in size, (but most much smaller), or downloaded to expandable flash memory. There would be no optical disks at all. Every NX game would be playable on the go.

The Game Cards might even have enough rewritable memory on board to not only hold your save data, but also any post-release patches (but probably not DLC), which would be cool.

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All of the above is pure, assembled speculation, is supported by nothing but rumor, and may be completely and embarassingly WRONG.

… but until Nintendo shows us what it ACTUALLY is … this is what all the rumors are painting a pictue of in my head.

I think the 360-degree projector thing is something that will not be part of NX. Who knows what that is, or if it will ever even be a thing … like the Vitality Sensor, and QOL.