Nintendo almost competed with 360/PS3 power + a Gamecube Portable before Wii

https://nintendoeverything.com/ninte...ube-successor/

https://i.imgur.com/wNVneQ9.png

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Years before the Switch’s debut, it seems that Nintendo considered the idea of creating a device that would have allowed for similar “play anywhere” gameplay.

Nintendo has been hit with plenty of leaks as of late. There’s now been another leak within the past few days, and a proposal has been discovered involving a portable GameCube with dock.

As spotted by Twitter user LuigiBlood, the dock had GameCube controller ports, SD card / GC Memory Card slot, AV out, and optional TV tuner + MPEG4 Encoder and wireless technology. Here’s a look at one of the proposals:

As part of the same leak, a different proposal was spotted for “Tako”. This would have been a successor to Dolphin (GameCube). Whereas the Wii wasn’t striving for power, it seems that the idea here would have been to create a system on par with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, complete with HDTV support and seamless compatibility with Nintendo portables.

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The portable Gamecube would have been neat. DC on a chip and PSP showed we could get some impressive hardware at the time. IMO a Nintendo system on the level of 360 been a massive mistake. Likely done Wii U numbers and kicked them out of hardware. As fun as it is to shit on Wii. Saved their ass.

Yeah, it seems like a step too far down the wrong path, bringing potentially little to the table. I'd glare at my Wii U in disgust, but I loaned it to my sister yesterday for an indefinite period after it had collected dust for two years.

To the Wii U's defense, at least it has been pointed out that it looks like an imperfect attempt at what would become the Switch later. But yeah, being tied to its main console really killed most of its momentum (and ignoring the Wii's strengths, i.e. the motion controls didn't help its case either). At least they had the Wii's profits to cushion whatever they wanted to do.

Also I'm still convinced that the portable GameCube was basically the GameCube equivalent of a CDX. It doesn't even have its own screen.

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Originally Posted by Sik

To the Wii U's defense, at least it has been pointed out that it looks like an imperfect attempt at what would become the Switch later. But yeah, being tied to its main console really killed most of its momentum (and ignoring the Wii's strengths, i.e. the motion controls didn't help its case either). At least they had the Wii's profits to cushion whatever they wanted to do.

Also I'm still convinced that the portable GameCube was basically the GameCube equivalent of a CDX. It doesn't even have its own screen.

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Unless I'm reading the diagram wrong isn't that a 480x272 LCD at the top? I wonder if this has any relation to the 3D Gamecube Nintendo has mentioned over the years, they said it would have a 4" LCD but it was too expensive. I don't know what year this diagram is from but I'm guessing it had to be pre-DS. It seems very out of character for Nintendo to consider a portable GC as a follow up to the GBA.

That's why I was calling it a CDX, which would have made way more sense than it being a GBA successor :​P

The LCD screen is detachable from what I understood, for all we know it may have been meant to be sold separately, especially since it also can be connected to a TV.

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Originally Posted by Sik

That's why I was calling it a CDX, which would have made way more sense than it being a GBA successor :​P

The LCD screen is detachable from what I understood, for all we know it may have been meant to be sold separately, especially since it also can be connected to a TV.

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Oh yeah that makes sense :)
I think this is what Iwata was talking about years ago:
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv...o-3ds-made/0/2