It's way more a behaviour thing than an age deal, man. Much like that green day lad: one day he's a regular 90s rock dude and the other he's an old em... what was the -nowadays fad- thing back then? Emorrhoids or something eh? ;D
As you've pointed out, I once again say: I knew, some ten/twelve years ago, 35+ yr old people who were into this whole millennial-esque type of stuff. Go figure! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have essentially zero interest in portable gaming anymore. When I do use my 2ds, its around the house. So what they showed so far to me is a system with the price premium of a console at the specs of a handheld.

When they have a library built up of exclusives that I don't already have or can't get on my Wii U I'll give it another look.

That dog scene said a lot. I know folks who share crazy amounts of cat pics daily and NEVER walk their dogs.
Always on VR? Much like that google glass deal, huh? That's scary, creepy to say the least.

ps: I was once walking home and stopped to get me some ice tea and on the tv they were showing that new apple watch or something; first thing that came to mind was "heck what if the battery on this thing dies, you'll be walking the streets with a useless watch and people will ask you the time and you'll eventually won't be able to tell" ;D

It comes from the same director right? o.O

As soon as they make pre-order available, I'll pre-order! What else? ;o)

I don't see it being nearly as useful as it shows. Portable maybe. most likely it will be a solo system and more useful for someone who isn't in a home environment (AIT, college, away) where the portable element is more important than the rest of it.

tiny screen, tiny half controllers...

Personally it doesn't sound that good to me.

And I really really don't see walking the dog and talking this on the go with you, and I don't see having 8 guys playing basketball or splatoon the way it's shown off.

8 guys with NX each, assume $350 for everything a copy for everyone,

1 Basketball $30...

Honestly if the OS is more open or you can stream audio/video then maybe. Already they've shown it intends to basically replace mobile devices. Book reading? Not on that size.

My opinion? Wait and see. Give it a good year or two, see if any good titles software or if it is actually a good product.

I really like the idea. I kinda always wanted a Vita only now that it's basically dead it's not a good investment for me... so this is taking it to the next level.

The problem is, now that I have my Steam Link and lots of good Mac games, the whole idea of Consoles kinda loses my interest. The portable aspect of this would be incredible - with a Steam streaming client. Otherwise it's just more expensive games and buying twice.

Never know though, if it's crazy cheap I might consider it. It won't be though.

Interesting thought.

This is a traditional game console. The guy was playing Skyrim with the pro controller (the same is true with Zelda). It is pretty clear that this is a traditional console system that has the power to play modern games and uses a standard/pro controls.

the difference being it can also be taken with you to go and play anywhere. No motion control, no 3D screen, no touch screen, no gyroscopic(at least not shown or revealed yet).

Straight pro controller for all games on a traditional powerful console.

Not a bad idea ... I'd subscribe!

uninterested
nintendo has a sketchy track record at best
with third party dropping off like flies and nintendo letting a console to rot with minimal support ( see the cube the wii and wii U )

not interested in the usual nintendo rehashes either

Conceptually it's neat and innovative, I just don't think it's something people really want these days.
Hopefully they put some more work into the games line-up this time around.

The NVIDIA Blog contains a couple of interesting hints about the hardware. It refers to the Tegra processor inside as "scalable", which of course is nothing unusual, but is intriguing in this context in that it confirms my previous assertion that it'll adapt the performance of the processor (number of cores, clock speed) depending on whether the device is docked or mobile.

It's claimed/rumoured/speculated elsewhere that the tablet screen (which apparently ISN'T a touchscreen) has a 720p resolution, so that's one area where the processor performance can be adapted - while the main console could theoretically run games at 1080p, there's no need to have them running at that full resolution while it isn't docked.

The GPU is apparently based on the same architecture as the "world's top-performing GeForce gaming graphics cards", so probably based on the GTX 10xx series. Obviously doesn't say much in terms of performance, and there's very little that the GTX 10xx series can do in the way of hardware-rendered effects that older hardware cannot (Metal Gear Solid 5 showed that the older consoles were just as capable of doing physically-based lighting). Interesting that they should shy away from comparing performance and refer to it as "high-efficiency". Still, not even Sony's and Microsoft's consoles have performance comparable to the GTX 10xx range, but they still manage to achieve some remarkable performance with the hardware that they do have, so there's hope yet.

I think the main reason for the use of the Tegra is its ability to scale its performance. We traditionally associate the Tegra with low-performance mobile, but with Tegra Parker coming out this year, we may indeed have a SoC that can achieve at least PS4/Xbox One performance when clocked as far as it can go. Judging by the large vents at the top of the mobile device, it does look like the Tegra is expected to run quite hot while docked. Tegra chips have to date been very rarely used outside of virtualised environments - we tend to associate them with Android, which performance-wise isn't the most efficient OS out there - it's a virtualised Java-like environment running on top of a UI running on top of an ARM Linux kernel.

The other big question is what "custom" means in terms of the Tegra. It could be that it is fundamentally based on the Parker X2 but with more CUDA cores, which wouldn't be ordinarily possible with a dedicated mobile device because it would simply run too hot and be too power-consuming. So it could for instance run on 512 CUDA cores while in the dock, which with the Pascal architecture would probably give performance comparable to the PS4 and Xbox One, but shut down half of those cores when mobile.

Heh? Nintendo has been one of the few hardware companies to actively support their hardware well after third-party developers have abandoned it. Sure, the titles have been drip fed of late, but the number of them is comparable to the first and second-party titles on other consoles. If you look at Sony and Microsoft, neither of which really support their consoles towards the end of their lives and leave it to third-party developers to support them.

Man, you DO have a very, very big chip on your shoulder about Nintendo. I get that you "dislike" them, but the fact that you have to post that fact and create threads about it so often tells a bigger story in my opinion.

i wasnt aware i had to be positive to be able to discuss nintendo

and considering the wii U is pretty much adrift with little to no support
let alone advertising or anything going for it tells quite a big story

or the fact that the wii caved in after 2010

Nintendo will get all the praise for being innovative until dumb kids lose those tiny controller and lots of angry parents who.are forced to buy replacement come complaining about stupid design :D

Cautiously optimistic would be my take. This being Nintendo the hardware quality will be okay, the main issue will be ease of developing for the platform and third party support.