There were rumblings that there would be some major unofficial news about the NX soon, and it seems that day has arrived in the form of a massive Eurogamer leak about Nintendo’s new console. An extensive article details for the first time what exactly the system is, and as many predicted, Nintendo’s new console is heavily focused on mobile play.

Not just heavily, almost entirely.

According to the Eurogamer report, the Nintendo NX is a 100% portable console. The entire pitch of the NX will be that you can “take your games on the go,” meaning you can take the entire system with you, not just pieces of it, as some predicted. Here are the highlights of the report:

• On the go, the device has its own display and is completely portable. It may have two controllers that attach to the unit itself, so it can be played, to some effect, like a mobile home console.

• At home, the console will plug into a docking station where you can then play its games on a regular, large TV.

• The NX will use physical media, but it will be returning to cartridges, not discs. The recommended cartridge size may be 32 GB, which is smaller than many modern games.

• Since this is a huge change in tech, the NX will almost certainly not be backwards compatible.

• As for power? Here’s a direct quote: “Graphical comparisons with current consoles are difficult due to the vastly different nature of the device – but once again we’ve heard Nintendo is not chasing graphical parity. Quite the opposite, it is sacrificing power to ensure it can squeeze all of this technology into a handheld.”

Posted: Jul 27, 2016 5:36 pm
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Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/07/26/new-leak-says-the-nintendo-nx-is-a-less-powerful-entirely-portable-console/#6ea0274863f1