I'd like to see this story digged up a little more, perhaps by some journalists who have the resources and contacts to do so.
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NX will launch in March 2017 globally, won't be at E3 (focusing on Zelda instead)
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I'd like to see this story digged up a little more, perhaps by some journalists who have the resources and contacts to do so.
Lionel Richie
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DrROBschiz
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No way to confirm and given the NX information we have received at this point ...
ugh
I mean, if its true there's very little to shout over and more about ruminating on the consequences to AMD or the GloFo factory as they would be severe. The only shouting would be if people suddenly felt insecure that Nintendo may get a massive deal-cut from this (if true) that could slash the NX price to rather comical degrees with high performance thresholds in the face of the X1.5 and PS4Neo launching.
Also, comically again, Nintendo likely now also knows the X1.5 specs to some degree since the factory would have just made it for them and delivered it.
Here:
May explain why the NX is now in March 2017 rather than Holiday 2016. Since, well, they made the wrong thing.
OMG I GOT IT
What if the mix up wasn't for retail units, but for dev kits? Thus, Nintendo had to send kits to third-parties late, explaining the lack of games. This is on top of the Reddit rumor that third-parties were struggling to meet a holiday launch as-is. Nintendo realized that they were going to miss the holidays, so they decided to just delay it until March and make sure that all of the games make it on time. However, even then they aren't 100% confident so it might hit in June or something. It also makes a lot more sense considering that consumer units shouldn't enter production until summer.
This is the best possible response.
What if the mix up wasn't for retail units, but for dev kits? Thus, Nintendo had to send kits to third-parties late, explaining the lack of games. This is on top of the Reddit rumor that third-parties were struggling to meet a holiday launch as-is. Nintendo realized that they were going to miss the holidays, so they decided to just delay it until March and make sure that all of the games make it on time. However, even then they aren't 100% confident so it might hit in June or something. It also makes a lot more sense considering that consumer units shouldn't enter production until summer.
I'm just enjoying the conspiracy theories. I know that none of it is likely to be true. Kimishima is Illuminati.
This is the best possible response.
Wouldn't the timing of this, being so recent, be more towards the runs at main production rather than just dev kits at this point? If Nintendo had been planning to stick to a November launch? They'd need a few months of stock build up (especially if limited on yields if this shares a 14nm production line with the X1.5 or whatever), and then distribution planning and such.
AcademicSaucer
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Yeah, Im hoping for this.
At worse, we get confirmation that is false. At best , well ...
Perhaps message a mod first to be sure?
You could ask a mod if you're not sure.
Well, the ramp-up is planned for H2 per AMD. I'm not totally sure.
I'm gonna say September.
I'll PM one or two. Any recommendations for who I should contact?
True. Though I'd have imagined that protypes and early internal kits would have been long since developed. Nintendo wouldn't be skipping holiday because "we didn't have ports ready (that weren't going to perform well anyway)".
I'd have thought that around this time, early production ramp-up would have been starting before going into full production later on in the year. This lets them also make sure all the "commercial" products work and have time to be tested for the main commercial/stock/retail run.
Movalpolos
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Where is your proof?
bish/Nirolak/stump/emcee should be solid mods to contact (not to say the others are not!)
However, look at this page http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showgroups.php to see who's online to get a quicker response.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Since when has proof been a prerequisite for making rumor threads???
Movalpolos
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Pokemaniac
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Based on what we've hear fairly recently from developers saying that devkits were in very short supply, I'd say this stands a pretty good chance of significantly impacting devkits. The intended ship date for those could have been within the next month or two.
blu
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Ok, that did give me a sensible chuckle. Thanks.
Where did we hear that, though? Do you mean Jools' tweets and Thomas Mahler's posts? Or was there something else?
Great point!
I'll PM LapinAgile and ask if he could do that, and if he'd be fine with a thread over the topic.
Undead Fantasy
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Oh God..
It's the internet, Nintendo, NintendoGAF and NintendoGAF post interesting developments from Nintendo so I can't even quantify the size of the shaving of grain of salt I have right now.
That said, if this is true AYY LMAO.
Dang, if true, Nintendo could sue and the only way AMD might be able to fix their situation is to decrease the cost for chips for the first year or two.
Pessimism makes me expect December or January of next year.
I imagine nothing good would come from this lol.
AMD isn't producing the chips. If AMD screwed up, all they could do would be to cut the licensing fee. If GloFo screwed up, then Nintendo could get a lower material cost.
Pokemaniac
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We heard from Trev back in March that they weren't out for general availability yet, and none of the reports since then have said otherwise.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Holy shit this is awesome. Well done.
To be fair, sometimes people (particularly hardcore Nintendo fans) tend to give the Big N credit that actually could and most likely should be given to other companies, because they tend to use "innovation" and "invention" interchangeably, conflating the two. They also tend to focus those innovations of theirs upon the entire industry when honestly at times that is limited to the home console market, or the handheld market. It's as if they they ignore PC and arcade gaming altogether.
Which is why these type of graphic memes, even if not 100% accurate, are always 100% funny.
What's bish gonna do unless the original source is interested in divulging more details? He hasn't said anything since dropping the rumors..
Movalpolos
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Eolz
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Read the posts above. It's really not as smart as you might think.
I'd question to whom you're referring... because one of those two things is immensely inaccurate and I'd hope you're not thinking it is correct...
Well, I PMed out speedy rabbit friend too, so hopefully they'll want to! We'll see!
jhmtehgamr20xx
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I know. It's not 100% accurate. But it's fun to see the reactions and kind of brings out a larger truth.
It's most likely a Global Foundries fuck up judging by their history. I have a good feeling that AMD isn't at fault at ALL since they technically aren't the ones manufacturing the chips.
SO I am confused as to why everyone thinks this is an AMD fuck up (where it would actually be a GloFo fuck up that would have a negative effect on AMD).
Movalpolos
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somebody's uncle
Lionel Richie
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What truth? That people might get defensive when someone posts something blatantly aggravating about stuff they like?
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Well, partly that yes (which are the reactions, which are fun to watch).
But the other side of it is, some folks like to try accrediting anything and everything to Nintendo as if they invented it and made it en vogue, but ignore that the home console market and handheld markets aren't the only sides to the video game industry, nor have ever been.
I don't mean stuff like the first controller w/ rumble support (even if it wasn't standardized), but other things. The annoying part comes in when they treat as something Nintendo did out of complete isolation, like they aren't looking at competitors and noting ideas and concepts from what they're doing, just putting their own spin on it. Just smacks in the face of history of gaming's contributors imo; Nintendo isn't the only one.
Pancake Mix
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Speaking of chips (of a different kind), Macronix doesn't appear to be bracing for a huge explosion of demand for ROM chips in late 2016 if I am reading this right:
http://www.macronix.com/Lists/QuarterlyResults/Attachments/214/2016Q1%20webcast%20PPT_en.pdf
Wouldn't that start in late 2016 for a March 2017 launch? This might be evidence that the March 2017 product is a home console only.
No doubt. Just adding this to the pile is all.
http://www.macronix.com/Lists/QuarterlyResults/Attachments/214/2016Q1%20webcast%20PPT_en.pdf
Wouldn't that start in late 2016 for a March 2017 launch? This might be evidence that the March 2017 product is a home console only.
No doubt. Just adding this to the pile is all.
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