Its no secret that Nintendo is always working on their next console/handheld..
What do you guys want to see in the 3DS's successor? Ideally I'd like to see this and think it should be feasible in a profitable $130-$150 package by mid-2016. I say 2016 because even though 3DS sales are slowing down, I don't see Nintendo releasing a new handheld until then.
Here's what I'd like to see: Call it Nintendo HDS. Give it a single, fold-able 5.5-6 inch 960x640 screen. Folding may raise price of screen but with 640p it will be cheap enough to not cost more than $15-$20 per unit (3D screen on 3DS costed $25 per screen in 2011) Phones are already making 720p standard on $150-$200 no contract devices so by 2016 640p should be bargain bin. This foldable screen has been demoed many times by other companies. Nintendo can make it clamshell so that the whole device doesn't have to be fold-able, just the screen itself. Two clamshell halves. Imagine a PS Vita split down the middle roughly.
The advantage of the fold-able screen is that Nintendo can split 3DS/DS games straight down the middle for backwards compatibility and the new games could use the whole screen or two if necessary. It would make the device super-portable, more portable than the 3DS even though it will have a 5 inch or bigger screen. Imagine its similar to folding a Game Boy Advance SP shut, but a little bigger.
Ship it with decent hardware but nothing that breaks the bank. Launching it at a low price is important. Nintendo said themselves that the days of $200 handhelds and $300 consoles may be over (Iwata said this for investors) so I imagine they'll come in at $130-$170 this time. Pack it with a nice AMD made ARM based Quad Core CPU around 1Ghz, a decent ARM GPU, and 2GB RAM and you're good. There are plenty of no contact phones sold at massive profits at price points like $130-$150 with 1GB-1.5GB RAM, I think 2GB RAM in a $130 handheld is very feasible by 2016 and likely profitable.
Of course my scenario isn't the only one, what can you guys think of? How would you handle 3DS's successor?
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