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[Agent Unknown]

Well, obviously, considering Mr. Kimishima said that himself. Not with those words, but still.

Kimishima said they'd talk about it more at that point, not that they'd actually unveil the system before E3 as Orgen is saying. No need to be snippy with another insider who like you is probably just trying to be helpful and give folks something substantive to talk about other than fake pictures and word games. Orgen has a solid track record already based on the post someone linked earlier from him in 2012 regarding B/W 2. Not trying to give you a hard time but the tone of your reply here comes off as really catty and rather tacky.

 

[MK_768]

If NX is releasing this year, they will literally have to say something no later than their next investor briefing on April 27th.

Negative.

 

[DrROBschiz]

Negative.

SOMETHING will be out in the open by then

Be it Nintendo or someone else spilling some beans

 

[MK_768]

SOMETHING will be out in the open by then

Be it Nintendo or someone else spilling some beans

Maybe, maybe not.

Just saying that Nintendo doesn't have to "literally have to say" anything by April 27th. It's likely they will but that's besides the point lol.

 

[Rösti]

Kimishima said they'd talk about it more at that point, not that they'd actually unveil the system before E3 as Orgen says. No need to be snippy with another insider who like you is probably just trying to be helpful and give folks something substantive to talk about other than fake pictures and word games. Orgen has a solid track record already based on the post someone linked earlier from him in 2012 regarding B/W 2.

I meant not to be snippy, not at all. I apologize if that's the impression you got. My comment was mainly directed towards the statement more NX information would come before E3, not the part about NX potentially being revealed prior to E3.

 

[DrROBschiz]

With all the mess coming out this year... VR, PS4.5 and Iterative XBOX, PC, Mobile and whatever else

Dude.. what will Nintendo bring to the table?

Knowing me Smash and Monster Hunter is always enough lol

 

[Peltz]

With all the mess coming out this year... VR, PS4.5 and Iterative XBOX, PC, Mobile and whatever else

Dude.. what will Nintendo bring to the table?

Knowing me Smash and Monster Hunter is always enough lol

PS 4.5 is coming out this year all of a sudden? I doubt it. We are very very far away from that.

 

[EloquentM]

In a month, we will know something. Keep your expectations low. It could just be the name and/or concept. It could be more, but then you can be happily surprised, Manuel.

Hey now, don't get snippy with me

 

[DrROBschiz]

PS 4.5 is coming out this year all of a sudden? I doubt it. We are very very far away from that.

No one knows

I just assume its meant to go along with VR

 

[Bots are better than you]

With all the mess coming out this year... VR, PS4.5 and Iterative XBOX, PC, Mobile and whatever else

Dude.. what will Nintendo bring to the table?

Knowing me Smash and Monster Hunter is always enough lol

Well, given the initial reactions to a possible PS4.5 this year, and assuming the same reactions for a XBOX Oneandahalf, i'd say that Nintendo has the "advantage" of showing a new system.

But they have to show something before E³ to start the hype.

I think it's the first time we have an "intermission" hardware with consoles ... so that's either going to light up interest ... or will backfire big time.
Depends on future compatibility for games, and the price of those devices ... and of course how the mass media is going to talk about them.

 

[DownGrader]

Definitely fake, Ninty usually goes with the plastic toy look, at most a little gloss applied like in recent times.

While the photo in question is fake in my opinion too, I have to disagree about the plastic toy look. While modern hardware definitely looks toy-like, there was a lot of "professional" and "sleek" designs - the original Nintendo 3DS, for example:

And, for what it's worth, the original Nintendo DS looked like a "professional" device of its time, like PDAs or top-class mobile phones.

 

[Samemind]

While the photo in question is fake in my opinion too, I have to disagree about the plastic toy look. While modern hardware definitely looks toy-like, there was a lot of "professional" and "sleek" designs - the original Nintendo 3DS, for example:

And, for what it's worth, the original Nintendo DS looked like a "professional" device of its time, like PDAs or top-class mobile phones.

I miss the phatty.

 

[maxcriden]

Hey now, don't get snippy with me

Don't take that tone with me, young man. You will get your NX news when you are good and ready.

Mr. Kimishima said this in the Q&A session of the Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing for Fiscal Year Ending March 2016:

Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/160203qa/03.html

Ah, that's right. Thank you. I couldn't recall the exact wording.

At the very least I expect NX to support all peripherals, addons and controllers they have made thus far.

Its not like it would be hard and since there is a rumored NX version of Smash 4 I can only imagine the GC adapter will be supported along with any other USB add on

Whether or not it would be difficult for them, if they want to do a clean break with previous HW, they might opt not to offer support for Wiimotes and the like. Expectations are a good way to help ensure disappointment.

Kimishima said they'd talk about it more at that point, not that they'd actually unveil the system before E3 as Orgen is saying. No need to be snippy with another insider who like you is probably just trying to be helpful and give folks something substantive to talk about other than fake pictures and word games. Orgen has a solid track record already based on the post someone linked earlier from him in 2012 regarding B/W 2. Not trying to give you a hard time but the tone of your reply here comes off as really catty and rather tacky.

Orgen isn't saying Nintendo will unveil the system before E3. Simply that they will provide some information about NX prior to E3. Just to clarify that.

 

[Graphics Horse]

I miss the phatty.

still have mine even though the top half is hanging on by one corner

 

[10k]

There's gonna be a full NX reveal press event in May

Spoiler

Am I doing it right?

 

[Samemind]

still have mine even though the top half is hanging on by one corner

I have mine, but the bottom screen has been marked by "the eye of Sauron" as my friends call it. EBA was good tho, no regrets.

 

[Leatherface]

I hope they end up calling it Nintendo NX. I actually like that quite a bit.

 

[Gabe3208]

I've seen many places that say they will/will not sell NX this year. But I wonder does Nintendo, from a business perspective, really think it would be a good idea to NOT launch the NX this year? I mean, if the Wii U's production will soon cease for reasons such as "poorly selling software" and "lack of interest in the hardware," then wouldn't holding off on selling the NX until next year be a completely bad idea business/profit wise?

 

[The Maverick]

I've seen many places that say they will/will not sell NX this year. But I wonder does Nintendo, from a business perspective, really think it would be a good idea to NOT launch the NX this year? I mean, if the Wii U's production will soon cease for reasons such as "poorly selling software" and "lack of interest in the hardware," then wouldn't holding off on selling the NX until next year be a completely bad idea business/profit wise?

If the NX doesn't drop this year, nintendo is done. Total irrelevancy.

 

[crpav]

I miss the phatty.

As do I I still have the paper weight complete in box. Sad though is it's dead. Years back I brought it to work to play during lunch. Turned it on and all it would do would blink tan amber light and never turn on. Tried everything from charging it and any possible resets and nothing. Read at the time it probably was a blown fuse so stupid me took it apart and tried to "solder" it and I just made things worse so boxed ti up and stored it away. Miss it much as I got it at US launch.

 

[Ad0ve]

If the NX doesn't drop this year, nintendo is done. Total irrelevancy.

As opposed to launching this year and getting destroyed by the PS4.5?

 

[Always-honest]

still have mine even though the top half is hanging on by one corner

Exact same for me. My son dropped it..
It still works though.

 

[Kissenkopf]

As opposed to launching this year and getting destroyed by the PS4.5?

I doubt Nintendo or any other company is afraid of a PS 4.5.
IF the NX will be something really different and special it can be seeling well.
We can speculate about that when we finally know what the NX will be.

 

[10k]

You don't cancel Wii U production before announcing a successor and release only three or so high profile games in the holiday period for the Wii U if you're not going to replace it this holiday.

Paper Mario and Zelda aren't going to sustain Nintendo like profits for holiday 2016.

 

[Welfare]

You are crazy if you think Nintendo won't have an official successor this year to replace a now dead console.

 

[GustyGardens]

As opposed to launching this year and getting destroyed by the PS4.5?

I don't think the PS4.5 will launch this year. At the earliest, I'd say it launches, if it exists, in the Spring of next year. Sony already has a big, and expensive, piece of technology coming out this holiday. It feels like suicide for one of those devices if they were to both release in the same months.

Give the PSVR time to breath, then launch the PS4.5 with the VR box built-in the following year.

 

[tr1p1ex]

You don't cancel Wii U production before announcing a successor and release only three or so high profile games in the holiday period for the Wii U if you're not going to replace it this holiday.

Paper Mario and Zelda aren't going to sustain Nintendo like profits for holiday 2016.

You'd be on to something if that didn't sound like a typical holiday for Nintendo.

 

[10k]

You'd be on to something if that didn't sound like a typical holiday for Nintendo.

Paper Mario and Zelda for Wii U. Not exactly gangbusters.

 

[Mesoian]

As opposed to launching this year and getting destroyed by the PS4.5?

The 4.5 is more of a gamble for Sony, considering they run the risk of splitting their market multiple ways. Actively combating that with a console that looks like it's both a standalone and a mobile unit in the same device is a strong method of doing that (assuming that's what the NX even is).

 

[gafneo]

The 4.5 is more of a gamble for Sony, considering they run the risk of splitting their market multiple ways. Actively combating that with a console that looks like it's both a standalone and a mobile unit in the same device is a strong method of doing that (assuming that's what the NX even is).

More like PS 4.01
It will be just a 4k and HDD expansion. Only graphic hoes will truly need one.

 

[Agent Unknown]

I meant not to be snippy, not at all. I apologize if that's the impression you got. My comment was mainly directed towards the statement more NX information would come before E3, not the part about NX potentially being revealed prior to E3.

Fair enough, sorry if I misread your tone.

 

[Mesoian]

More like PS 4.01
It will be just a 4k and HDD expansion. Only graphic hoes will truly need one.

Which doesn't really change the fact that everyone making games on Sony's platform is going to have to decide whether or not they're going to support this stuff and put out 3 different versions of their game on what used to be a single platform. The consumers may get to say "whatever", developers are going to have a lot of brand new conversations about scalability for one platform.

There's a reason why this didn't work for Sega.

You are crazy if you think Nintendo won't have an official successor this year to replace a now dead console.

Or, more importantly, would give up an entire holiday season worth of revenue due to managing people's expectations with a new platform.

I'm not saying they WILL have more information out before e3, but they absolutely SHOULD. The last thing they want to do is Sega Saturn this thing.

 

[StickSoldier]

Yup NX this year.

 

[Agent Unknown]

Catching up on Serkan Toto's tweets and news of Wii U manufacturing ending, wow, it's really over and NX needs to land this year for sure.

 

[cacildo]

Yup NX this year.

And obviously compatible with WiiU discs, otherwise it would be incredible stupid to keep releasing new games that close to NX release

 

[SuperJay]

Saw this twitter exchange with well known Nintendo fanartist and illustrator Zac Gorman and Sonic comic illustrator Tyson Heese.

A bit...worrying... :\

 

[Mesoian]

And obviously compatible with WiiU discs, otherwise it would be incredible stupid to keep releasing new games that close to NX release

It would be kind of crazy, yet awesome, if the NX had software BWC for both WiiU and Wii, which subsequently would have GCN BWC.

I don't see it happening though.

 

[Servbot24]

If the NX doesn't drop this year, nintendo is done. Total irrelevancy.

Eh, they're already irrelevant as a console maker anyways. Whatever they do needs to be quite disruptive if they want to make a comeback - I doubt being a few months later will make much difference in that regard. Although sooner is definitely better.

 

[NateDrake]

Saw this twitter exchange with well known Nintendo fanartist and illustrator Zac Gorman and Sonic comic illustrator Tyson Heese.

A bit...worrying... :\

Doesn't mean anything. For all we know he's referring to the rumored information we have all heard.

 

[FZZ]

Saw this twitter exchange with well known Nintendo fanartist and illustrator Zac Gorman and Sonic comic illustrator Tyson Heese.

A bit...worrying... :\

He probably doesn't know jack shit

 

[Shadax the wizard]

Saw this twitter exchange with well known Nintendo fanartist and illustrator Zac Gorman and Sonic comic illustrator Tyson Heese.

A bit...worrying... :

There's an alarming lack of winks in those posts, wouldn't take them too seriously.

Spoiler

; )

 

[maxcriden]

The 4.5 is more of a gamble for Sony, considering they run the risk of splitting their market multiple ways. Actively combating that with a console that looks like it's both a standalone and a mobile unit in the same device is a strong method of doing that (assuming that's what the NX even is).

I believe Nintendo long ago debunked what you're describing, i.e. a hybrid.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Saw this twitter exchange with well known Nintendo fanartist and illustrator Zac Gorman and Sonic comic illustrator Tyson Heese.

A bit...worrying... :

This guy is reading destructoid like everybody else

 

[Croatoan]

More like PS 4.01
It will be just a 4k and HDD expansion. Only graphic hoes will truly need one.

Wouldn't it have to increase power to support 4k?

 

[maxcriden]

Eh, they're already irrelevant as a console maker anyways. Whatever they do needs to be quite disruptive if they want to make a comeback - I doubt being a few months later will make much difference in that regard. Although sooner is definitely better.

The timing issue really comes down to releasing during a holiday season. That's always Nintendo's bread and butter sales period, so it would be potentially detrimental to launch a console during another period. A handheld is a different story, though if for some reason we are getting a handheld this year and no console, I would expect they'd try to make a holiday splash with it.

 

[Nibel]

Sorry but I won't trust a Sonic comic artist on opinions about the NX

 

[bomma_man]

Sorry but I won't trust a Sonic comic artist

Fixed

 

[Roo]

Sorry but I won't trust a Sonic comic artist on opinions about the NX

Like seriously
lol

 

[L Thammy]

Last I recall, console revisions are typically there to keep sales from drying up, they're not the same as a new console generation. They can't offer a lot of exclusive stuff because they still want to profit from the audience that hasn't upgraded. So I don't think the PS4.5 will be a huge threat, or at least, it won't be a much bigger threat than the PS4 already is.

Sorry but I won't trust a Sonic comic artist on opinions about the NX

He's probably just trying to get revenge for Sega getting out of the hardware game and the Sonic Passion forums closing

 

[Indigo Rush]

He's probably just trying to get revenge for Sega getting out of the hardware game and the Sonic Passion forums closing

What have you got against Tyson? He's a cool dude; where'd you get the idea he posts on Sonic Passion?