It's looking more and more like the NX is exactly what I've thought and hoped it would be: a handheld with an HDMI docking station, so you can play it on your TV. Since the Wii U's launch, I've heard numerous people puzzle over why Nintendo went backwards with that platform; shouldn't the computing power be in the controller, which then streams to the TV, versus the other way around? Nintendo is apparently correcting that obvious design flaw with NX.

After spending so much money on the new TV and my GTX 1070, I kept telling myself that I wouldn't buy an NX. But now that my assumptions seem to be proving true, the prospect of being able to play "don't look like total crap" versions of Monster Hunter and Fire Emblem, and on my TV to boot, is looking sort of irresistable. I've always been envious of the 3DS' library, but never wanted to touch the hardware; thinking of all of those franchises now being triple-A console games that you play on your TV is sort of game changing to me.

Although I laugh at the rumors saying it will use "cartridges". Cartridges are necessarily bulky plastic containers that hold PCB (something that looks like a small motherboard) containing custom hardware that pulls game data from a ROM chip and delivers it through the contacts. I'm sure NX will just be using what are essentially micro SD cards, sort of like how the 3DS games are delivered. I used to love the slick N-Gage game packaging, so that route sounds A-OK to me-- it's just that they're not "cartridges".