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A "dedicated game system" utilizing a "brand-new concept." Iwata hopes to talk more about it next year.
Announced to make it clear that even though the DeNA announcement is a big change of policy for Nintendo, they are still in the business of making dedicated game devices.
Therefore, it is definitely not a phone.
Source: the DeNA/Nintendo press conference stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rNi6ZbMKh_w
Update: We do not know for a fact whether it is a handheld or a set-top console, but they have made some clarifications on this point. See below quote from Iwata.
28 Sept '15 EDIT: Since people keep insisting it's going to be a hybrid console/handheld, I should add this telling quote from the late Satoru Iwata (from March 2013, link courtesy of Neoxon):
21 August '15 EDIT:
Possible related patent found by Rösti discussing a "stationary" console with internal HDD, external HDD support, as well as an ability to read memory cards like SD (although some suspect it could be a cartridge slot, the patent seems to imply otherwise, with "game software" only being mentioned on the two HDD apparatuses. This might also apply to a Wii U Mini system (digital-only with SD support?), so this may have nothing to do with NX...especially if the Wii U's console patent mentions nothing about an Internal HDD and instead the NAND flash memory it actually has inside.
23 March '15 EDIT: Iwata on game consoles:
17 March '15 EDIT: Some people are posting that Iwata said that NX was "merging the gap" between handhelds and consoles but they did not say this about NX, rather about their new membership/account service. They started talking about it right after the NX announcement, so some people were confused. The transcription: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2015/150317/03.html (thanks to JoeM86)
Additional info/visuals:
From another thread on the conference, assuming true and not a joke post:
Announced to make it clear that even though the DeNA announcement is a big change of policy for Nintendo, they are still in the business of making dedicated game devices.
Therefore, it is definitely not a phone.
Source: the DeNA/Nintendo press conference stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rNi6ZbMKh_w
Update: We do not know for a fact whether it is a handheld or a set-top console, but they have made some clarifications on this point. See below quote from Iwata.
28 Sept '15 EDIT: Since people keep insisting it's going to be a hybrid console/handheld, I should add this telling quote from the late Satoru Iwata (from March 2013, link courtesy of Neoxon):
21 August '15 EDIT:
Possible related patent found by Rösti discussing a "stationary" console with internal HDD, external HDD support, as well as an ability to read memory cards like SD (although some suspect it could be a cartridge slot, the patent seems to imply otherwise, with "game software" only being mentioned on the two HDD apparatuses. This might also apply to a Wii U Mini system (digital-only with SD support?), so this may have nothing to do with NX...especially if the Wii U's console patent mentions nothing about an Internal HDD and instead the NAND flash memory it actually has inside.
Rösti;176135943 said:http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...tendo.AANM.&OS=AANM/Nintendo&RS=AANM/Nintendo
If link doesn't work, search 20150231511 here.
23 March '15 EDIT: Iwata on game consoles:
17 March '15 EDIT: Some people are posting that Iwata said that NX was "merging the gap" between handhelds and consoles but they did not say this about NX, rather about their new membership/account service. They started talking about it right after the NX announcement, so some people were confused. The transcription: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2015/150317/03.html (thanks to JoeM86)
Additional info/visuals:
From another thread on the conference, assuming true and not a joke post:
