&quot;the NX is meant to be 3x more powerful than the PS4. That sort of power only makes sense if it&#x27;s a streaming platform.&quot;<p>You&#x27;re confusing me. One minute you seem to be discussing streaming <i>from</i> the console, the next streaming <i>to</i> the console. They may coincidentally use the same English word but technically they have nothing to do with each other.<p>Streaming <i>from</i> the console may require a bit of extra oomph, but if you&#x27;re designing it into the console from scratch you can add some custom hardware for it and it shouldn&#x27;t increase general-purpose computing requirements. Streaming <i>to</i> the console by no stretch of the imagination requires anything to be 3x more powerful than the PS4; if you added 4K output to its graphics card, a XBox 360 would be plenty powerful enough to stream even 4K <i>to</i> the console. Sending video streams to the hardware decoder does not take a lot of power. Either way you don&#x27;t need a lot more power for &quot;streaming&quot; either in or out.<p>As for specs, it will be coming out 3 years after the PS4 came out. The PS4&#x2F;XBone generation is generally considered a bit underpowered compared to what PCs could already do at the time. CPUs haven&#x27;t been advancing much but GPUs have still be clockin&#x27; along in the past 3 years. Being merely 3x more powerful than a PS4 is still Nintendo being <i>conservative</i> and not focusing on producing a graphics powerhouse, as has been their style for the Wii line, not some sort of impossible dream.