Besides the legendary NES, and to a slightly smaller extent the SNES, every Nintendo console since these two beasts have been a letdown IMO. When the PS1 launched, Nintendo lost most of its relevance with the exception of the portable market where, to this day, remains king of the hill. The only successful console since the SNES was the Wii for entirely different reasons. You and I know that.
But onto the future, the next console I dream to own, but virtually impossible to become reality, is what I really wish for Nintendo's next console to be. Nintendo's next console should be called the "Nintendo 7" or sometimes simply "7" for short. The reason for this is because whatever console Nintendo will release will be the seventh home console. I dream this console to launch in two variants (again) with 2TB and 6TB HDDs. The gimmick? What is a Nintendo console nowadays without a controversial gimmick? My Nintendo console of dreams will focus primarily on the most devoted gamers that want the best of all worlds, so this gimmick I am going to throw in will be a wireless Blu-Ray drive.
This wireless Blu-Ray drive allows for easy and convenient disk swapping for the couch potato (how awesome would that be? :P), and since games will be installed on the hard drive, this thing can run on battery for quite a long time and placed virtually anywhere in the room the console itself resides in. For Blu-Ray movie playback you can just simply plug it in if you don't have enough charge. This Blu-Ray drive will be rated with 10 hours of battery life so it shouldn't be an issue. Having a remote and separate drive allows for a sleeker console design, more emphasis on cooling, and one less part that produces internal heat.
The basic specs:
20TFLOPs of Single Precision GPU performance (4k gaming native)
32GB RAM
32-core x86 CPU
The real 7th Nintendo console very likely won't be anywhere close to this in any way shape or form. The next Nintendo might be stupidly called the New Wii U, with specs barely better than the PS4, and some extremely oddball controller to go along with it, but whatever Nintendo has in store, I am extremely interested in the mystery.
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Those basic specs sound more like what you would put in a server.
Nintendo N7
Simple and easy to follow, thought of this name during their E3 last year. Glad to see I wasn't the only one with something similar.
As for those specs... well they're** dream worthy :D
Personally, I don't need a powerful console with Blueray or those specs that you described here. The Nintendo console of my dreams needs great games, specially jrpg and platform games. Platform 3D category has been vanished last years and I am missing them. i dont want another 2D Mario or 3D world style Mario, I need an open world mario like Mario 64....
Basic specs are NEVER going to happen. The top end GPUs of 2015 launching later this year are only pushing around the 8 - 9 TFLOP mark $400 - $600 range.
New console will have to launch by 2020 from all 3, and if they want to launch at a reasonable price 8 - 12 TFLOP is the peak performance of the next consoles, which is enough for 4k gaming, and more than likely rending technologies and GPU design will receive a technological advance to make the process of 4k rendering easier.
Also with new APIs dual GPU rendering should be much easier, but these boxes won't literally be running 2 full GPUs (unless they're low power cards like dual GTX 450 / UHD 760). They'll likely have a powerful CPU (biggest complaint for this gen, so it will be rectified) with integrated graphics on-board, and have the API capable of using the CPU, the main GPU, and the secondary IG GPU to each run task needed for keeping games framerates smooth. None of these consoles will be top of the line, but they'll be much smarter and more efficient thanks to vast improvements to hardware and software.
Finally, Nintendo would kill itself if it tried to go head to head with Sony and MS with a $400 - $500 console. Nintendo has to be at least $100 - $200 less than Sony and MS to stay competitive sales wise, while also offering acceptable performance or a good enough niche to counterbalance their disadvantages.
I don't see Nintendo sticking with the Wii U until 2020, which means they're going to have less powerful tech, and be forced to stick with that $299 max price, which gives them the following max spec range.
CPU: FX 6300e / FX 8320e
GPU: R9 380 / R9 470 / R9 560 (TDP is their biggest concern)
RAM: 8GB DDR4 + 4GB GDDR5
Price: $299 (2017 - 2018)
It's basically a PS4+, with a much better CPU, a GPU anywhere from 1.5x to 2x more powerful than the PS4, and a more than large enough pool of RAM for Nintendo games all o fwhich would be running in at least 1080p @ 60fps, and 1440p @ 30fps for their graphic showcases.
It seems like the same fate Nintendo pulled with the Wii, and the Wii U, and seems most like it might backfire, but the benefit of this is that the architecture is practically identical to the PS4 and XBO, which means ports will be effortless between the 3 giving Nintendo more 3rd party support than they ever had, it makes development of games much easier from PC allowing Nintendo to publish their own games much faster, and it offers enough performance to justify the price of the console which is something the Wii U failed to do.
All they need is their niche, and IMO that's a redesign of the Wii U gamepad, that doesn't look like a Fisher Price toy, but a true tablet controller, and allow up to 3/4 Nintendo 4DS to sync to the console as controllers. That would be their niche and the selling point for joining the Nintendo ecosystem. Mario Party with 4 player own screen co-op. Pokemon MMO streamed to each screen with 4 player co-op. Smash stream to each screen with 4 player co-op. It would be a big selling point for Nintendo co-op gaming. And the CPU will be powerful enough to handle such a task something the Wii U's refreshed GameCube CPU could never do.
The issue with Nintendo's next console will be the target audience. Knowing them they'd make something on par with PS4 and X1 while Sony and Microsoft get ready to once again upgrade to 9th gen tech, once again leaving Nintendo in the dust. The prolonged loyalty programs that PSN and XBL would have given by that point would make it impossible for Nintendo to steal marketshare. Wii U already sells at a rate of 3.3 million a year, the next console is at risk of doing even worse than that.