Nintendo should piggyback off Apple and Sony events. Lets say the general press does a article on these press events. They talk about Neo, near the end of the article they are likely to add Nintendo has also revealed they have something cooking and will be shown next week. If Nintendo dint announce a reveal date they probably won't even mention Nintendo in all the articles.
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Report: NX Handheld Dimensions, Layout Info, Lack of Region Lock
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Nintendo should piggyback off Apple and Sony events. Lets say the general press does a article on these press events. They talk about Neo, near the end of the article they are likely to add Nintendo has also revealed they have something cooking and will be shown next week. If Nintendo dint announce a reveal date they probably won't even mention Nintendo in all the articles.
Jim_Cacher
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The industry surely will quake if that happens...
It is quite interesting that while gaming is becoming a mainstream thing, the market is in fact shrinking. Yeah, I agree that Nintendo do not have the nerve to pull this off now. They need to wait for the best timing to announce the NX, and this timing is so critical that it may make or break the NX future.
A reveal date teaser before Apple and Sony's conference should be fine, just don't spoil the whole thing. Too dangerous.
blu
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He said Android APIs. Android's current 3D API is OpenGL ES2/3. Vulkan is definitely lower level than that.
Actually no, they're about the same level.
Of course Tegra does have vulkan support (Jetson TX1).
FantasticMrSnake
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Ahaa! I'm totally with you on the ergonomics point. Here is something I did just now:
You made that one? It's the nicest atm, but it looks weird to me to have the analog above the buttons..
btw, your mock up is famous: https://twitter.com/guythefighter/status/773129123455729664/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
That's the first mockup I have seen that looks like proper Nintendo hardware and not like some fanboys wet dream.
I like it.
While I like it, it resembles the PSP a bit too much.
I'm relatively sure that the controllers on the side will resemble the Wiimotes or an evolution of them.
Yeah, tried to call them out on Twitter but I don't understand how retweets and replies work exactly, my message didn't appear hah.
Oh well, why my mock up exploded on the Japanese social networks and news pages when there are better mock ups then mine is a bit of a mystery!
They have strong nostalgia for SNES controller styling?
User123456
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If they actually try to sabotage the Neo reveal with NX news I will regain a good deal of lost respect towards Nintendo.
Vulkan is one of the few (if not the only) technological NX things we can take for granted.
Ruud_Luiten
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Nintendo is part of the Vulkan group, right?
Ruud_Luiten
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Detachabke controllers should be useful in your hand. This mockup makes them not useful at all.
To be fair, VR (as an extra function) would make sense.
Based on the currently believed leaks... we have a screen that could be slotted into a headset..and a seperate motion controller for each hand.
Resolution is low (a bump to 1080p would be better) ..but not much different from Oculus DK1.
This is good. He's going all in.
I like his logic: gameblog.fr posts a lot of crap but from time to time they post also some good info, thus this info that I believe in is legit. Julien is friend with Nico and Nico has leaked in the past some things thus what Julien says must be truth. You wouldn't be friend with a liar (Julien, exaggerating for effect) and be trustworthy (Nicowav) at the same time, would you?
Plus I like how he adds Nico at the end to the list of people who said NX is more powerful than PS4 when that's a straight up lie. But I guess when you need the list to be longer You don't stop and care for the details too much.
Also what Julien says is true. Everything. All of it. Well, except the part about Nvidia being on board because that would hurt AMD's feelings. And SMD64's theories. But the rest? Everything is true.
*Edited for avoiding confusion.
It's this month.. Or next month. Or next year. Probably before March.
Herb Alpert
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Yeah, it's going to happen this year.
Herb Alpert
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Yes.
I had a heart attack for a moment
Great NX confirmed for next year! at least we won't have to wait 2018
LiberaTeExInferis
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Nicowav was not vague with Devil's Third. He mentioned that it would stir up, to a certain point ofcourse, the same reaction with Bayonetta 2..He was spot on with the TP remaster, too. Which were his mistakes regarding predictions and rumors?
Dark Cloud
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Nicowav has been right. Somebody said Nico is on the hybrid side. He's gotten things right and people keep trying to discredit him for some reason.
I will say his NX reveal around September 20th seems safe, but if he knows, then that's cool.
I will say his NX reveal around September 20th seems safe, but if he knows, then that's cool.
You didn't understand what I meant. I wasn't contesting Nicowav. Just SMD64's logic. Let me rephrase that. According to SMD64:
Julien is friend with Nicowav. Nicowav had some reliable rumours. Thus Julien's speculation is reliable.
If NX had VR, I wouldn't mind if all their VR games looked like 8-bit games so you'd have character models that are made up of voxels.
Only because I am not expecting High-end PC VR. May as well make a novelty of it.
I think the problems with something like this are
1) It looks cheap - like some add-on to bad tablet.
2) How do you sell that idea to people (I assume 1 in 1000000 people will care)
If Nintendo even attempt to try and sell the NX as a tablet type of thing I think they're in trouble the moment they show snap-on controllers. Sell it as a game device and make it like a game device as opposed to a tablet with some try-hard add ons.
https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/773436875864440832
Notice how they go all the way trying to not write "console". Interesting.
Dark Cloud
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So it is a console?
If it was a hybrid they would've just said hybrid NX
/s
I agree. I don't think I've ever seen this. They keep promoting something that hasn't been revealed. It's such a slap in the face I feel and honestly for the first time pisses me off.
User123456
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Why the hell are they doing this? How can they be doing this when nobody knows what the freaking thing is?
I mean, is this a thing? Announcing prizes/giveaways for systems that have absolutely no public information given about them by the creators other than "It's a game system" and "the codename is NX"? Has Nintendo ever done anything like this?
This is seriously bordering on insulting by now.
What's the source for the text? Beyond a screenshot on twitter? Edit: I tried to search for the text and it's nowhere to be found.
This is the Nintendo DE tweet:
https://twitter.com/NintendoDE/status/773437191372570626
Herb Alpert
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I told you. NX won't be revealed at all.
It will be a surprise!
It will be a surprise!
Jon Carter
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There's also a Uniqlo contest where you can win an NX signed by Miyamoto.
You really need to reevaluate your priorities of this borders on insulting for you.
User123456
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"Please be excited for this contest next year due to the prize that we will be giving out! We won't tell you what it is though, and we haven't told you for like a year now, but please do be super excited!"
That doesn't sound ridiculous to you?
EDIT: Also adding insult to injury is the fact that the Wii U has been dead forever now and the 3DS is on life support getting basically nothing but shovelware with very few exceptions. It feels as if Nintendo dropped off the face of the industry entirely over a year ago. What kind of customer relations is this after giving them either nothing or mediocre filler for such a long period of time?
Why? Is holding a cookie in your hand not useful?
same concept.I was aiming more towards the SNES controller with the rounded sides. Far better ergonomics then flat sides and sharp corners just for the sake of looking like remotes. I do not want to hold something like the original 3DS again, that gives some serious cramps.
It's little more than a bit odd. The point is, if you feel insulted over this, you are investing way, way too much of yourself in videogames.
It's weird that people take the Eurogamer rumor as gospel when even Jose Otero from IGN's NVC said they heard similar rumors but couldn't get a second or third source to verify it, which is why they didn't report on it. So then others start coming out stating that they heard the same thing but can't or won't confirm that they've heard this from a completely different source than Eurogamer has.
For all we know the same source could be feeding these guys all the same information and now they are all confirming each other! Lol
One thing we know is that the NX can't be all of these rumors wrapped up into one so someone is going to be very disappointed soon.
Jim_Cacher
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So when people said Tuesday would be the day they announced a direct, that turned out not to be true right? Quelle surprise.
I hope there is an official source, because it would be the first time I see a real commitment to March, probably since the delay, by Nintendo. Note that all the other tweets are the more nebulous "next year".
User123456
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Enthusiastic fanbases are the lifeblood of the industry, and I expected Nintendo to know that considering their home console business has been barely surviving exclusively on hardcore fans for the entire generation.
By all means then, feel insulted if that's what being enthusiastic means to you.
Domstercool
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Well if the first final is mid-October, it's probably safe to assume we will know about the device before then. Can't exactly advertise the prize in a final if it doesn't exist. :O
Monthly finals get just Splatoon merchandise as prizes. Only the final final gets an NX. And that will happen next year, so there's no guarantee about the NX reveal.
Notor!ousG
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If Nintendo is putting out such a tweet, I don't think we have to expect some news this week.
They actually say 'code-named NX'.
Late September it is.
They actually say 'code-named NX'.
Late September it is.
User123456
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Well, the NX will of course be revealed and released by the time this thing actually happens. But it REALLY irks me that they are announcing this now.
They're trying to generate buzz for a console that doesn't exist in the eyes of consumers beyond a codename. This would be a cute tease if they hadn't been teasing this for over a year and its release wasn't looming ever so near.
Without aggressive marketing and hype building, I feel like Nintendo is just going to be a barely audible whisper for the average consumer bombarded by tech news from literally everything else.
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