Nintendo NX games console to launch in March 2017

[HEXUS]

Next-gen console is still shrouded in mystery and won't be on show at E3 in June.

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[jigger]

Profits fell 60.6% and Nintendo still made 16.5 billion! Typo?

[b0redom]

Profits fell 60.6% and Nintendo still made 16.5 billion! Typo?

That's 16.5bn Yen!

[scaryjim]

That's 16.5bn Yen!

For the lazy, that's around £102m/$148m

[jigger]

Makes much more sense.

[Vorlon99]

They'd probably make a ton more money if they put all their titles / IPs onto the other platforms. They could exercise tight control over the developers and the product before it was released if they were worried about tarnishing their reputation with sub standard product.
It seems pointless flogging the dying horse (they just aren't in the console race any more) when they could make so much by expanding their market. After all, few gamers buy a console just for the sake of the console itself, they buy them because of the Games, how well they play and how good they look, easily achieved if you develop for the popular HW - PS4, XB1 and PC

[spacein_vader]

They'd probably make a ton more money if they put all their titles / IPs onto the other platforms. They could exercise tight control over the developers and the product before it was released if they were worried about tarnishing their reputation with sub standard product.
It seems pointless flogging the dying horse (they just aren't in the console race any more) when they could make so much by expanding their market. After all, few gamers buy a console just for the sake of the console itself, they buy them because of the Games, how well they play and how good they look, easily achieved if you develop for the popular HW - PS4, XB1 and PC

They said that about Sega, but since they quit consoles & became just a publisher they aren't anywhere near as big as they were.

[lumireleon]

Nintendo need to stop beating around the bush and give us a new console with a quad core and 1200 stream processors GPU all at a cost of $300.

[Vorlon99]

They said that about Sega, but since they quit consoles & became just a publisher they aren't anywhere near as big as they were.

Ah but the difference there is that Sega were very poorly managed anyway, and were already on their last legs before they went software only; they only survived at all because they finally jumped out of the HW race before they completely folded. They had no choice. Nintendo aren't in that position, relatively speaking they are in a secure position, (if they don't wait too long.) Nintendo have a very strong catalogue of characters and titles, probably more so than Sega did.
After all even the other players are talking about allowing their exclusives onto the PC, the market continues to change... I think people really are more interested in the experience and less in the HW for its own sake.
Nintendo can tap into that.

[jigger]

Any details on the hardware for the NX console?

[Bagpuss]

Any details on the hardware for the NX console?

Lol..you won't get any details like that from Nintendo, someone will have to buy an NX and put it under the microscope, literally, in order to learn the tech details.

[jigger]

I'm not sure in todays world. Someone on linkedin will know...

Founds this.

http://www.everybodyplays.co.uk/news...ntendo-NX/1957

Fusion Terminal (Console)
GPGPU: Custom Radeon HD RX 200 GPU CODENAME LADY (2816 shaders @ 960 MHz, 4.60 TFLOP/s, Fillrates: 60.6 Gpixel/s, 170 Gtexel/s)
CPU: IBM 64-Bit Custom POWER 8-Based IBM 8-Core Processor CODENAME JUMPMAN (2.2 GHz, Shared 6 MB L4 cache)
Co-CPU: IBM PowerPC 750-based 1.24 GHz Tri-Core Co-Processor CODENAME HAMMER
MEMORY: 4 Gigabytes of Unified DDR4 SDRAM CODENAMED KONG, 2 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MHz (12.8 GB/s) On Die CODENAMED BARREL
802.11 b/g/n Wireless
Bluetooth v4.0 BLE
2 USB 3.0
1 Coaxial Cable Input
1 CableCARD Slot
4 Custom Stream-Interface Nodes up to 4 Wii U GamePads
Versions with Disk Drive play Wii U Optical Disk (4 Layers Maximum), FUSION Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) and Nintendo 3DS Card Slot
1 HDMI 2.0 1080p/4K Port
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 or 7.1 Surround Sound
Inductive Charging Surface for up to 4 FUSION DS or IC-Wii Remote Plus Controllers
Two versions: Disk Slot Version with 60 Gigs of Internal Flash Storage and Diskless Version with 300 Gigs of Internal Flash Storage

[Plasmastorm]

Two versions: Disk Slot Version with 60 Gigs of Internal Flash Storage and Diskless Version with 300 Gigs of Internal Flash Storage

That better be expandable if it's correct :-S

[Exetric]

Hopefully this will be better than the previous stuff Nintendo has pumped out in terms on consoles :/

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'm not sure in todays world. Someone on linkedin will know...

Founds this.

http://www.everybodyplays.co.uk/news...ntendo-NX/1957

The RAM arrangement and type looks worrying.

[EverybodyelsE]

Is the NX Nintendo's 10th console generation including handheld? I imagine the name will remain Nintendo NX or Nintendo X. Just a passing thought...

01. NES
02. SNES
03. Game Boy/Game Boy Colour
04. Virtual Boy
05. N64
06. Game Boy Advance
07. Gamecube
08. Nintendo DS/3DS
09. Nintendo Wii/Wii U
10. Nintendo NX