Somebody Else's Problem wrote:Alvin Flummux wrote:Everything Iwata has been saying in interviews and whatnot lately seems, I hear, to hint at the next handheld and main systems sharing many features and being heavily compatible with one another. They will be very closely related, the design an evolution of the Wii U's system-gamepad relationship, hopefully superior to the PS4-Vita relationship, which apparently isn't as super great as the Wii U's setup.
Anyway, since there is likely to be an emphasis on cross and offscreen play, and given the possibility (I feel) that Nintendo will probably adopt its popular Pro Controller as its new base standard, we will likely see the next new handheld essentially be the new gamepad, with those crazy new screens, working as smoothly with the main system on off-screen play etc as the U, only with more range and its own host of games, with lots of shared features.
You think maybe the handheld could also offer "on-screen play", beaming the video to the console, which displays it on your TV? So you get off-TV play for your console games, and on-TV play for your handheld games?
Like the Gameboy Player for the GCN? Absolutely, why not? That doesn't sound like it should be too much harder to implement than switching screens on the U, especially if the two systems are being developed essentially as extensions of each other.
I also think that it
might be possible for a person playing, say, Smash Bros, on the main platform, to play a multiplayer game with a person playing Smash on the handheld, as well perhaps as someone playing on another regular controller - cross-platform cross-play. It might be doable with several of them, even. That shouldn't be as taxing as having two gamepads for the U running simultaneously, as the handhelds would handle the bulk of the processing, rather than relying on the main system to do it all.
Ah Nintendo console speculation, how I've missed you!