The wait is almost over. Nintendo is going to say more about his new and much-awaited home console NX. The giant Kyoto will broadcast this afternoon at 16h French time a video that will showcase “the brand-new concept” of its new home console. “The video is of a duration of three minutes will be online at 23 hours, the hour of Japan,” said a spokesman for the group. “NX” is a temporary name, says Nintendo.
What do we know about this new machine ? Not much, Only information 100% safe : his release in march next year with a license weight, to learn a new Zelda. Nintendo has managed to keep the secret until now.
“Let me confirm that Nintendo is currently in the process of developing a new gaming platform dedicated with a whole new concept. It bears the code name of NX.”, launched the late Satoru Iwata, the boss of the firm nippon.
After the rumours (denied) of a use of Android, Tatsumi Kimishima, the new boss of the firm of Kyoto, is income in December last year on the project through an interview at the Time. Once again, no actual evidence has not been revealed but the ceo wanted to be clear : the NX will be a console breaking.
first, It is important not to repeat the mistakes of the Wii U. “The Wii is so sold and has affected an audience so large that it was not going to be easy to convince them to 'give up’ to switch to the Wii U”, argues the ceo, recognizing, therefore, that the name of the console had been very badly chosen, the consumer thinking that it was an evolution of the Wii and not a new console.
“I can assure you that the NX is not the new version of the Wii or the Wii U. It is a unique machine and it is different. We deviate from these consoles to design something that will attract our consumers”, he continued. The rumors also mention a machine as much at ease in the home as well as in mobility. And a power greater than the current machines (PS4 and Xbox One).
The Wall Street Journal think that the machine will reconnect with a format that we thought forgotten : the cartridge. “Nintendo plans to adopt the cartridge format for its next generation of game consoles, according to people familiar with the companies”, one can read. The daily also quotes from Atsushi Osanai, a former employee of Nintendo became a researcher at Harvard who noted that the cartridge “is no doubt the best format today to distribute games in a physical way”.
If the cartridge has been put in the closet, this is because the optical disks provide much more storage capabilities but now, with the technologies of flash memory, the cartridge is again used as a medium of game. All the more that she has other qualities : the absence of load times, reliability (fragility of the optical disc), and a safety much more important than Blu-ray. The cartridge may thus strongly limit the negative effects of piracy.
Tatsumi Kimishima intends to continue the cultural revolution of the father of Mario. It will be recalled that the firm has already spent a significant cap by authorizing a third-party publisher to bring its licenses for smartphones, a historic first, but it is for Nintendo to remain in a market today crushed by Sony and Microsoft. For observers, this NX could be the attempt of the last chance of Nintendo in the console market salon.
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