'Splatoon' is one of the Wii U's best games, and it didn't need a whole bunch of grunt under the hood to both look and play fantastically. Screenshot courtesy of Nintendo
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As a home console force, Nintendo's on the slide—the Wii U's no contender whatsoever, sales wise, versus the PS4 and the Xbox One, and both of those systems are soon to receive updates (the aforementioned "NEO" and Microsoft's "Project Scorpio" Xbox, the latter of which is out late 2017). But in the handheld sector, it reigns supreme. The company's DS models, discounting any 3DS models, sold in excess of 150 million units. The Game Boy range? Almost 120 million. To date, the 3DS series has racked up close to 60 million sales. In comparison, Sony's PSP—the PlayStation Portable—sold 82 million, while the current-gen (but effectively dead already in terms of first-party support) PlayStation Vita has shifted substantially fewer, some way south of 20 million.
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'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' is coming out in 2017 for both the Wii U and NX (Wii U screenshot via Nintendo.com)
One massive downer about the NX—that is, if Eurogamer's piece is accurate—is that the system's all-new operating systems means it won't possess convenient backward compatibility. So there'll be no playing Chinatown Wars or Aliens Infestation on this machine, unless they're downloadable via the eShop. The only comment Nintendo itself is offering on any of this information right now is, basically, no comment.Long(ish) story short: I am well up for the NX, I think, and if this is the NX, thank you very much.Follow Mike Diver on Twitter.Read more gaming articles on VICE here, and follow VICE Gaming on Twitter at @VICEGaming.Related, on Motherboard: How to Explain Speedrunning to Your Parents
