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Amiibo is also a platform, Turrican3. Remember that...
You guys keep thinking downloadable, but they're going back to carts.
Yep, but honestly I wouldn't call/prefix that with "dedicated game", either. *shrugs*Amiibo is also a platform, Turrican3. Remember that...
Check the date on the website.That's an old rumor but if it releases in July it'll probably be in Japan only and the console will be in the west only during the holiday period.
This deserves its own thread as it really has nothing to do the OP.RUMOR - RUMOR - RUMOR
Digitimes Article:
"Nintendo's new game console is scheduled to enter mass production at the end of the first quarter 2016 and despite the fact that the Japan-based company is targeting to ship 20 million units in 2016, the device's upstream component suppliers expect shipments to only reach around 10-12 million units. The new console is estimated to enter mass shipments in the second quarter."
Note: Digitimes is a well respected publication, but they publish both factual and rumor type stories. This is clearly a RUMOR story.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20151130PD203.html
Production volumes of NX in second quarter 2016 would allow Nintendo to stockpile enough units for a Fall or Holiday 2016 launch, so at least from the hardware side things look to be on track. The bigger challenge for Nintendo will be getting the OS and games ready for launch. If, as many suspect, NX has a new architecture vs. Wii/Wii U then the software will be a significant challenge and probably the gating item for product launch.
This deserves its own thread as it really has nothing to do the OP.
Also new news, new thread.
Do it. I'm in the mood for crazy speculation.
That's my thought as well. There's no way they will go download only as it would lock away a number of people around the world, especially in the children category. If anything it will be USB/flash drives contained in Amiibos. So that you get a physical item that brings the game with it. The retail presence is crucial and a huge money maker for N.
Guess I'll be less of an arsehole than normal and actually reply to the new junior them.
It would be an interesting idea, but probably impractical to truly take advantage off, or develop for, given the low number of people that would own both versions of the system. It is an interesting idea though, and if the unified OS concept behind the NX works, could be implemented through a kind of modular hybrid varient down the line. One with the handheld built in and detachable to take the same games in the go, kind of like that new Windows Surface notebook Microsoft announced recently.
What I think it's more likely that that extra processing could do however, is make up for a lack of the dedicated hardware needed for offscreen play with the WiiU, utilising the handhelds power to allow full BC for WiiU titles that wouldn't work without the tea tray of poorly thought out ideas.
Assuming Nintendo Nintendo aren't dumb enough to double down on the WiiU's flaws of course.
Well, they could sell it together. I can see your point though. It would probably be hard to develop games that used its full combined capabilities. That would be very bad for Nintendo. It would be kinda like the Atari Jaguar, which had a weird combination of hardware that failed to impress, given how hard it was to develop for it, specially using its full capabilities.
http://www.techinsider.io/ said:* The system includes a game console, as well as a "supplemental computing device" that's physically connected to the game console to provide "processing resources."
* In the patent background, Nintendo says it wants you to play this console from anywhere. This hints at the idea of a mobile, handheld component.
* Nintendo says the console could "take the form of any suitable type of computing device, e.g., mobile, semi-mobile, semi-stationary, or stationary." That could mean anything from a game console that sits in your living room and ports audio and video through your TV, or a console that has its own display, like a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or computer. It even mentions wearable computing devices and body-mounted computing devices can be "capable of sending communications and performing functions."
* The console works differently depending on how far away it is from the "supplemental computing device." If it's close by, it can process everything "at a nearly real-time speed," including graphics and sound effects. But "far away devices may only be able to provide asynchronous or supplementary support to the events occuring on the console (e.g. providing for weather effects in games, artificial intelligence, etc.)."
* The console can "couple to multiple supplemental computing devices" to enhance the capabilities of the overall system. Nintendo mentions you can daisy-chain these supplemental devices to one another, either physically or wirelessly, for more power.
We'll find out todayIt seems my idea just might be happening...maybe. Look at this article about a new patent nintendo filed that came to light recently:
http://www.techinsider.io/nintendo-nx-patent-photos-2015-12
I'll just go ahead and quote a few interesting parts:
If this is indeed true, then the system can be VERY powerful as you could just add more processing units to enhance it. That would also explain what was said about tha dev kits, remember? One of the demos handed to developers required top of the line hardware to run. Will that really happen, or am I just daydreaming here?
We'll find out today
We'll find out today
We'll find out today
What part of "We'll talk about the NX in 2016" is so hard to understand?
Can I buy the 'supplemental computing device' separately? Could I buy 3 more of them and have my NX run Mario at 4k/120fps?
What part of "We'll talk about the NX in 2016" is so hard to understand?
Can I buy the 'supplemental computing device' separately? Could I buy 3 more of them and have my NX run Mario at 4k/120fps?
Sorry to bump this but was this posted already?
http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?Docid=...ageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=9E776D03331E
Says published late last month so I doubt it.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...s1=Nintendo.AS.&OS=AN/Nintendo&RS=AN/Nintendo
Sorry to bump this but was this posted already?
http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?Docid=...ageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=9E776D03331E
Says published late last month so I doubt it.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...s1=Nintendo.AS.&OS=AN/Nintendo&RS=AN/Nintendo
Sorry to bump this but was this posted already?
http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?Docid=...ageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=9E776D03331E
Says published late last month so I doubt it.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...s1=Nintendo.AS.&OS=AN/Nintendo&RS=AN/Nintendo
Isn't NX a handheld? Doesn't 3DS use carts? What's the big deal.
Isn't NX a handheld? Doesn't 3DS use carts? What's the big deal.
Found this one also.
https://www.google.com/patents/USD7...ved=0ahUKEwjG2fCE4ZnLAhWFMGMKHbKxAUsQ6AEIHTAA
None of the pics work yet though. I believe this is for the NX portable. Won't know until those pics are there though.
Awwww yeah!"Folding state"
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How do they handle DRM?Cartridges would be cool. If they're thinking of going digital only, no thanks. Especially considering how Nintendo handles DRM
" FIG. 13 is a front perspective view of a second embodiment of a portable computer showing our new design; "
Nevermind. Probably the new 3ds.
edit:
FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a first embodiment of a portable computer showing our new design;
First embodiment of our new design? Now i really don't know what to think. the new 3ds is def not the first embodiment of anything.
edit 2
Nevermind.
http://www.toyinvention.com/toy-patents/patD745606.pdf
Cartridges would be cool. If they're thinking of going digital only, no thanks. Especially considering how Nintendo handles DRM
Nintendo won't handle drm this way forever, there's a reason why they're launching a new account system. That being said, i'd much rather have carts too but if they stick with discs i'll go dd only.Cartridges would be cool. If they're thinking of going digital only, no thanks. Especially considering how Nintendo handles DRM
You guys keep thinking downloadable, but they're going back to carts.