Just speculation for now based on the few Iwata quotes we have to work with.
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Nintendo's new platform codename: "Project NX"
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Wait, wasn't that the name of that OS they developed some years back?
lyrick
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nothing from now until then?
There has been absolutely nothing for the past 6+ months... Nothing at all.
This entire thread is random speculation, and tangents.
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In practical terms it doesn't matter. Nintendo has to replace their handheld and home console in the very near future, and whether they internally refer to it as NX or not is a trivial matter. Chances are that the NX term encompasses both devices, but even if it doesn't, nobody will be confused if you do so.
DXB-KNIGHT
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Just if it isn't for Square Enix big mouth.
If past unveilings/announcements are anything to go by, I'd say March might be the earliest for NX news. Maybe a third party will spill the beans.
Exterminieren
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Not a chance in the world.
They stuck Gen V on the DS because it had moved enormous amounts of hardware, and because Gen IV had sold extremely well on the platform. None of this is true of the 3DS.
We'll get Z next year, and then they'll be shot of the 3DS as far as mainline titles go.
Kissenkopf
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I would even say that we won't get anything official until E3.
They will focus on the Wii U and the 3DS till summer next year.
Pokemaniac
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While normally Game Freak would definitely do a generation for the New 3DS, I don't think the timing will really work for that this time around.
TrAcEr_x90
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As powerful as a PS4 and if you can detach a piece to become mobile. Day one. I used to looooove my dreamcast and being able to play those minigames on the memory card. Hope they do something similar.
I'm glad they did, otherwise we got jack s**t to talk about. I'm still surprise how this thread kept on going without any new info.
Talking about Pokémon: we'll have to see what happens in the next few months (next Coro Coro's issue is imminent, right?), but I wouldn't put as completely implausible that the next Pokémon semi-main game (i.e. Pokémon Z/X2/Y2/Magical Brock's Adventure in the Land of Gals/etc.) comes out on both 3DS and NX. It all depends on when the game is announced, when it's released, as well as if GF decides to put it on NX too, but...I don't know. Call me crazy, but I think the current conditions of the market could be different enough from the DS-to-3DS transition that, maybe, GF could think about it.
I wouldn't ever count on a mainline Pokémon being on a console.
Astral Dog
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its going to be calm for awhile guys, right now they only have the leftover releases for Wii U and 3DS while they prepare for the NX announcement, and that is going to be spring at the earliest. even SF was delayed.
I think he meant the NX Handheld.
Pokemaniac
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I really don't see that happening. What I could see happening is another thing like Pokemon Dream Radar releasing alongside Z if it doesn't release until NX is out, though.
I suppose it's theoretically possible that they could design the the main game to take advantage of the extra power if played on NX. That would require not insignificant engineering work, and Nintendo would have to be involved, but it could be done.
I'd be very surprised if Z actually got a proper NX port. If that happened, one or both versions of the game would probably suffer badly.
James Scott
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Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. If not a full NX version at least a port. The next handheld will likely not have BC
Would be weird to take a year off and not release it on the new platform
Just two thoughts/predictions.
1) I think there's a good chance they do a January reveal if it's releasing next year. They need to give time for third parties to announce stuff. I think it will announced before the end of the fiscal year.
2) Going by that patent I wouldn't be surprised if it was a single screen but designed around horizontal & portrait modes. This will help with mobile ports, DS/3DS BC and also keep experiences like Etrian Odyssey.
1) I think there's a good chance they do a January reveal if it's releasing next year. They need to give time for third parties to announce stuff. I think it will announced before the end of the fiscal year.
2) Going by that patent I wouldn't be surprised if it was a single screen but designed around horizontal & portrait modes. This will help with mobile ports, DS/3DS BC and also keep experiences like Etrian Odyssey.
KratosEnergyDrink
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I don't see Nintendo playing the high power game again. I don't expect a NX console to meet even PS4 power.
But it's Nintendo... you must always expect the unexpected. But nonetheless I expect definitely an outstanding feature of some sort.
But it's Nintendo... you must always expect the unexpected. But nonetheless I expect definitely an outstanding feature of some sort.
Gamephrodite.
Oh I was. We had leaks from multiple insiders to always increase debates and the system was already revealed anyways, it was the specs and gamepad possibilities that fuelled the discussion.
With the NX we have nothing other than it's a dedicated gaming platform and it's been called a console by Takeda, Reggie, Square Enix and others.
While Iwata dropped hints there will be multiple form factors nothing is official yet. And every time I visit the thread it's a cycle of:
1) user posts his theories on the NX
2) Debate ensues on how he's wrong or right
3) New user comes to the thread a week later and posts his theories
4) same debate ensues
Lol.
It would be nice if he had as much info as we did for the WUST threads but all we got so far is there is a handheld that will probably have a 540p screen and a console that has been called a console.
At least we had bgassassin and Ideaman plus some insider back then.
Maybe we have nothing because, well, it's still so far away.
Pokemaniac
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If you look at the Japanese release dates of Pokemon games, taking a year break during a generation really isn't that weird. The seemingly yearly Pokemon releases here are actually an artifact of the localization gap slowly closing. It would really be far weirder for Game Freak to decide to make the 3rd version cross-gen.
Also, I'm not sure why you're so skeptical that the NX handheld will have backwards compatibility. Assuming that they do use ARM, as many suspect, it would probably be fairly simple, relatively speaking, to get 3DS software running under a hypervisor, or a very lightweight emulator in the worst case.
SuperLeviathan
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That's what I'm thinking (WRT ARM for the handheld). The only wrinkle would be the carts themselves. You'd either need a separate 3DS slot, or the NX carts would have to be shaped like the DS/3DS ones, and I don't know how that would affect capacity.
Pokemaniac
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SD cards can fit vastly more data at even smaller sizes. I don't think capacity would be an issue.
They'd probably want to mirror the design so it won't fit into a 3DS, though.
So Reggie said VR in it's current state isnt fun. What if Nintendo deems their version of VR to be fun and the NX home console is VR is some capacity? What if they've invented a" Wii sports" like version of VR, in that it is instantly understood by everybody and flies off the shelves like Wii did?? A crazy gamble for them coming off Wii U but I wouldnt put it past them.
Purely speculation.
Purely speculation.
James Scott
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A good VR headset will likely cost as much as the Wii U does right now and requires a powerful system to use it. It's likely not happening any time soon. If it really does become mainstream which it might not, they might consider it later on
Good times. Good times. I was lurking back then and those threads were fun to read.
Good point but what if Nintendo in their ingenuity have found a way to work around the high price point?
NX has to have a gimmick. There’s no way it wont. VR would be pretty unexpected.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
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Ideaman? hyping up something that never came out to be true?
we smashed like 4 wii u speculation threads talking about absolutely nothing
dat year between e3 2011 and e3 2012
what a waste
Astral Dog
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All that and the Wii U ended up being....
we dont even know, comprasions to 360 could still be made with another thread, its just that nobody cares anymore.
its the small details that are fun.
Yes. Back when they weren't in the middle of departmental fire sales to try and keep the doors from closing. This isn't your momma's full-of-braggadocio king-of-the-world Sony that existed all the way up until the end of the last decade. The reasons why they do things from then and now aren't going to be the same.
Did I step into a wormhole and end up back in the mid-90s?
And considering that they're expecting to sell it at console-level prices for the accessory alone? Yeah, I'll believe this idea of them not having a massive potential to lose money on it when I see it fail and not take their positive financial gains from the PlayStation brand down with it.
How much money is earned from 5 million hardware sales instead of, say, 5-10 million extra software units?
Nintendo makes money on hardware, yes, but even for them, software is where the BIG money gets made. So if their supposed plan of hardware-agnostic software releasing nets higher overall software sales with each title according to the scads of market data from past, present and future that I'm sure they pulled on the subject before it was considered, then software exclusivity to handheld or console becomes a liability instead of an advantage on their books, especially when they don't absolutely have to do things that way.
OK. Now let's think outside of North America for a moment instead of believing that the world revolves around it and should cower to our every whim. What about every other name it was marketed under in every other region of the world? The brand cache and nostalgia factor doesn't work there. Calling NX a "Family Computer" in Japan right now would be pretty well laughable, as it would be the biggest example of an anachronism you might ever find. And yeah, being a laughing stock? Kinda something Nintendo will want to completely avoid wherever possible
Spladam
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That would be pretty awesome if they just called it "The Nintendo Entertainment System" again, or the "NES NX". It would actually be a very smart strategy of nostalgic branding in my opinion.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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Or just NEX. Also sounds like Next.
So so so good. Nintendo must be in the name somewhere.
That's really all I'm asking this time around. Something simple.
Absolutely.
If anything, I want Nintendo's brand name to officially be part of the name again. Excluding the Nintendo 3DS, the last console to use it was the Nintendo GameCube.
Nintendo's name is synonymous with games, it makes sense. I wasn't a big fan of their decision to just call it the "Wii" and "Wii U," the latter being an awful name since the beginning.
Candescence
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Nintendo X Pocket (NXP) and Nintendo X Home (NXH)? Nice, clean, elegant, and easily communicates the differences between the handheld and console form factors. And they can easily do version numbers, too.
DaSorcerer7
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Simple and effective. I like it.
Good vr is way too expensive And requires awesome specs.
A console based around vr would have to make so many compromises to keep the price down. If you thought the gamepad inflated the price that was nothing.
Forget about calling it just Nintendo X. I can just see it now:
Kid asks for a Nintendo X.
Parent goes to store, asks for "games machine called X".
Parent goes home with an Xbox One, happy in the knowledge he has bought the kid what he asked for.
James Scott
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It's likely not going to be called the NX or Nintendo X.
I think they only time they stuck with a codename was the DS, right?
I think they only time they stuck with a codename was the DS, right?
I think, was the DS code name the same as the final name?
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