Morgan Jolley
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I think I saw a rumor that the console would take discs but also have a slot for cartridges (or that there is an expansion slot on the bottom, like older consoles used to have, and there may be an add-on that could take cartridges). Maybe the portable games would work on the console with that port? The issue, I think, would be that the console can take higher res art than the portable and the portable can't store 25+ GB games, so you would need to scale up or down for whichever unit you're using. What Sony came up with for the PS Vita and PS3/4 works well, I think.
The things I saw quoted December simply because any earlier would be hard for them to imagine if being finished in time. Nintendo has been quick on this console so November is possible, I guess. Mid-November is where every major piece of hardware has launched before (more or less) so I could see them aiming for that Black Friday season. But it may be more rushed than usual.
The NX console controller isn't really a Wii U setup, though. The touch screen on the controller is, basically, optional. The games would be designed so they can use the screen but it won't be essential. That's kind of how most Wii U games ended up, anyway. And that's actually how most DS/3DS games turned out, too. The screen is rumored to be much smaller than the Wii U tablet so I don't think they'd want to really use it that way. Imagine something more like a PS4 controller but the touch pad is a screen.
The things I saw quoted December simply because any earlier would be hard for them to imagine if being finished in time. Nintendo has been quick on this console so November is possible, I guess. Mid-November is where every major piece of hardware has launched before (more or less) so I could see them aiming for that Black Friday season. But it may be more rushed than usual.
The NX console controller isn't really a Wii U setup, though. The touch screen on the controller is, basically, optional. The games would be designed so they can use the screen but it won't be essential. That's kind of how most Wii U games ended up, anyway. And that's actually how most DS/3DS games turned out, too. The screen is rumored to be much smaller than the Wii U tablet so I don't think they'd want to really use it that way. Imagine something more like a PS4 controller but the touch pad is a screen.