It won ' t be that . It will . That is the entire point of the system . Like , the literal advertisement . A hybrid . Home console and a portable . It ' ll play at least Wii U like games , which is why they showed Zelda and Splatoon and Mario . There is no market for a 500 to 600 Dollar XBone level home console that you can also carry around . $ 500 ? No . $ 300 ? $ 250 ? Definitely . Are you seriously telling me no one will buy the biggest leap in handheld technology ? Even if it ' s only Wii U or even PS 3 level that dwarfs the 3 DS and Vita . And even at this price level I wouldn ' t be convinced that you end up with something close enough in performance to a XBone while still having a multi hour battery life . The 3 DS doesn ' t have a good battery life . The Vita doesn ' t have a good battery life . Other gaming tablets , don ' t have a good battery life . If you want a superduper long battery life they ' d have to go waaay back . That ' s probably why they made it TVcompatible you can charge it and still play your game .