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Eurogamer: NX = portable w/ carts, detachable controllers, Tegra, TV Out, no BC, Sept
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Kimishima will parachute out of a plane onto the platform, knock the torches out of the carriers' hands and replace them with the NX device. In the mass confusion, the camera will focus on Kimishima in between it all and as silence falls as people see who the perpetrator was, he takes out a microphone and says "NX is out now". He drops the microphone and a helicopter piloted by ninjas suddenly appears overhead and drops a ladder. He grabs on and goes back to Nintendo HQ.
Trump in the morning will go on to say we need to build a wall around Nintendo.
Trump in the morning will go on to say we need to build a wall around Nintendo.
As we wait for Hot Chips and the NX announcement, I advise everyone to heed the lessons of South Park episodes "Go God Go" and "Go God Go XII," in which Cartman freezes himself as he cannot take the six week wait until the launch of the Wii. NX will be here soon enough...sure hope it's this week though.
James Scott
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Nintendo just announced that they've gotten $661M from the Mariners sales which should probably put them in a good place while the NX launches.
I kind of hope they put some of that into NX marketing. Sony's marketing budget for PS4 was 100 Million dollars which i imagine Nintendo's budget, in comparison, couldn't hope to compete. They need to get it right out of the gate, hope they do.
I kind of hope they put some of that into NX marketing. Sony's marketing budget for PS4 was 100 Million dollars which i imagine Nintendo's budget, in comparison, couldn't hope to compete. They need to get it right out of the gate, hope they do.
I hope they use some of it to market the damn thing well.
Edit: Well now I feel silly since you edited your post to include marketing talk lol.
Tom Nook Sawyer
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I'm pretty confident Nintendo would make the announcement at the same time they invite the press
Mr. Pointy
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I'm just going to listen to Hot Chip.
Agreed. My own theory is that they're going to wait until the Neo is revealed until saying anything, so after September 7th.
Hypothesis.
Graphics Horse
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So close, yet so far.
I did and I Feel Better.
DerekOfTheDykes
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Where is this rumor coming from? I don't like random dates springing out of the ether.
Angry Chair
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I think the same place that said the Neo would be unveiled on the 7th.
Hero of Legend
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I remembered your post. You were UNBELIEVABLY close it was unreal, I was thinking that they should've done SOMETHING NX-related, just something to get word out to billions of people... anything.
Vanillalite
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So if it's a live event what kind of lead time does Nintendo need to send out invites to people? 3 weeks?
I can tell that's a pet peve of yours
I'm starting to feel like Hideki Kamiya when my Twitter feed last night was filled with him correcting Japanese people by saying, "Platinum Games" because they kept saying, "Platina Games" according to the translation. I don't know if it has to do with the Katakana or whatever it's called.
DerekOfTheDykes
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Actually, you know what? This isn't exactly hard logic, but I'd actually put good money that it will happen around the 13th anyway.
I don't remember the exact dates, but the Nintendo reps have their annual national conference sometime in September this year, which will be the best opportunity for them to explain their marketing and sales strategy to the reps.
However, Nintendo also generally doesn't like telling reps anything major in advance. Which means that, to me, it's pretty likely we'll see a mid-September reveal just before they fly all the reps to their secret undisclosed location.
I don't remember the exact dates, but the Nintendo reps have their annual national conference sometime in September this year, which will be the best opportunity for them to explain their marketing and sales strategy to the reps.
However, Nintendo also generally doesn't like telling reps anything major in advance. Which means that, to me, it's pretty likely we'll see a mid-September reveal just before they fly all the reps to their secret undisclosed location.
Vanillalite
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I mean the 13th would basically mean invites have to go out this week. People need lead times for plans.
This week would be the latest they could go out for an event around the week of Sept. 12. Plans to travel and interview scheduling take time.
OrbitalBeard
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Yeah, if we don't hear anything this week, I don't think the NX is getting unveiled until the second half of September at the earliest.
DerekOfTheDykes
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Not if it will be a live-streamed presentation, rather than a press event. Not claiming any inside info or anything, I'm just saying, if Nintendo is doing a life-streamed presentation they wouldn't need to invite anyone.
Of course, doing that alone would be INCREDIBLY stupid, but like I said earlier I could potentially see them doing an initial presentation to reveal it before sending out invites to a hands-on press event where they reveal more info. If Nintendo is concerned about secrecy, that's the best way to guarantee you'll catch everyone off guard.
It's also why I think it'll be early/mid September, because knowing Nintendo there's no chance they'll let the reps know about it before the general public. Too big of a chance the info gets out (a fair concern, tbh).
It has to do with how japanese, for one reason or another, adopted platinum as a loanword but they say it like platina. Officially, platinum is pronounced platina over there. But kamiya is being anal about how P* uses a more accurate pronunciation of the word for their company name.
If we flipped the scenario, it would be like if the owner of restaurant called "Karate'k Out" got annoyed by people calling it "kuh-rot-eke out" when it was supposed to sound like "kara-take out"
Thanks for these too! Great stuff. This is really reassuring on FP16 usage, as Nvidia have put good focus on that with Maxwell and Pascal archs I believe, especially for their focus on self-driving and AI where I assume fast FP16 but crucial accuracy is very important in those fields.
Dreamwriter
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They don't need that $661 million, when they already have something like $5.5 billion in cash, $11 billion in total assets. Nintendo could spend however much they wanted on marketing.
Vanillalite
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What time is Nvidia doing it's whole Tegra spiel tomorrow at Hot Chips?
Do we have any real info on this?
Do we have any real info on this?
3PM Pacific. Intel and Nvidia are sharing the hour though and based on chart I'm guessing Intel goes first.
Vanillalite
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Thanks! You rock sir!
Pokemaniac
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There's pretty much always a hands on press event to go along with these types of things. They're not doing just a stream.
just curious, do we know what the value of nintendo's total assets were before wiids?
They have been pretty consistent with their assets (source):
Total Assets (March 31, 2005): $11.245 billion USD (1.132492 trillion Yen)
Cash/Cash Equivalents (March 31, 2005): $7.873 billion USD (792.728 billion Yen)
DerekOfTheDykes
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I mean, I would probably agree. I'm just pointing out a possibility, though not a super likely one.
thanks for that, ck
Dark Cloud
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Sony things are leaking left and right. Mario at the Olympics. Mariners being sold off. It all feels like we're building up to something big like an NX announcement!
No we're not *cries*
I always think of them everytime this Hot Chips event is mentioned. Been meaning to spin them up again.
I guess we can't doubt Takashi MOCHIZUKI when I brought up his WSJ articles about the NX being a hybrid. He definitely has his insiders because he just wrote an article now about there is a PS4 Neo and a PS4 slim being revealed.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1267287
Of course I could be wrong because I am just making baseless speculations. lol
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1267287
Of course I could be wrong because I am just making baseless speculations. lol
Dark Cloud
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When did he say the NX was a hybrid? I thought he reported the NX consisted of at least two parts and one of them was mobile? This was why we all thought there would be a NX console and a NX handheld.
WiiRevolution1
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Honestly, I can believe everything in the rumor...except no Inklings in Smash. I mean Sakurai gonna Sakurai but by this point that would be the most confusing thing I've seen done in awhile if Inklings aren't in Smash 5.
They only said it would be a console and a handheld. iirc
http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/16/9550113/wsj-nintendo-nx-console-handheld
But it doesn't mention a Sony portable. That likely means that the portable from the other thread is NX, which means that NX has a 7-inch screen? Team 540p looking weak.
By the way, using the Shield Tablet K1 as a starting point I came to the conclusion that 450-520 GFLOPS may be possible in a 7-inch tablet that draws no more than 5.5W for the whole unit. I used the K1 because it's easier to find exact GPU efficiency differences that way.
Where did the 7 inch screen come from?
WiiRevolution1
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S...Seven inches?
OMFG
GIVE ME IT NOW NINTENDO!!!!!!!
Edit: Checked the thread. Nowhere does it say 7 inches. Liar.
October 15th, 2015
“The exact shape of the NX hardware isn’t yet clear. People familiar with the development plans said Nintendo would likely include both a console and at least one mobile unit that could either be used in conjunction with the console or taken on the road for separate use. ” — Wall Street Journal
Source: Wall Street Journal
July 27th, 2016
“A person familiar with the matter said NX would be a handheld-console hybrid that would be compatible with its own smartphone games.” — Wall Street Journal
Source: Wall Street Journal
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