Nintendo She has been preparing her new console for a long time, a bet that still remains a mystery to this day: the Japanese is jealous silence -I am afraid that the competition will steal ideas- while her Wii U does not finish taking off, with sales of 10.73 million machines, which place it as the least successful desktop of the big N.
Meanwhile, in Kyoto they continue with plans for their new video game system, provisionally known as Nintendo NX, and about which we bring you the latest rumor, which would point directly to a hybrid control with an integrated screen, as reflected in a patent registered by the Japanese.
Although, doing a bit of historical memory, let us remember that Nintendo revolutionized control knobs with the innovation of the cross-piece included in their Game & Watch, which was later perfected in the endearing NES or in the machine Super Nintendo, and precisely the pad of the Brain of the Beast introduced standards such as shoulder buttons or the disposition of the diamond-shaped main keypad, we must not forget the command of Nintendo 64 with analog stick as standard, nor should we overlook the controversial Wiimote with motion sensor - own Sony would come to include this feature in the DualShock 3 before its media impact-, and finally, without much success, we have the tablet control of Wii U, vaguely exploited.
Well apparently the big N It would be willing to do without the main keypad, leaving only two kinds of sticks and some triggers, while the rest of the keys would be incorporated into the touch screen itself in which everything would be integrated, also varying, according to the needs of each game, the arrangement of virtual buttons. On the other hand, it seems that Sharp's free form technology is also referred to, translating into a screen with curved shapes and maybe even flexible.
The qualities of this device would fit with the rumored hybrid of portable and desktop console that has been circulating for months in the world. It could be the case that Nintendo NX It was composed of this pad with touch controls as a portable console and a larger unit, which attention, although this is a murmur anyway, it would have technical performance at the height of the current ones PlayStation 4 y Xbox One, since Nintendo would have contacted industry leaders to develop the GPU and CPU for its next console, thus distancing itself from the trends set by Wii y Wii U.
And we have to keep talking about more patents. A few weeks ago another series of documents were registered that pointed out that Nintendo NX could make use of modular technology, so that its performance and capabilities could be increased by means of additional hardware, depending on the demands of the players: in other words, we would have a series base unit to which to add components, and having consider how much you like Nintendo sell hardware or peripherals separately, it would not be very unreasonable to think that this would be one of the business pillars of NX.
Now we must go back to the month of February, where another patent was also registered and could be related to the new console from Mario's house. That device would not have an optical disc reader, but it would house an internal hard drive, a communications unit, and a processor. Will be Nintendo Thinking of making the leap to the cloud? The truth is that it would be an unusual move for a company always accused of being too traditional and immobile.
If we put the pieces of the puzzle together Nintendo NX formed by these patents, it is possible that we have a rough idea of where the shots will go with the new desktop of the big N, or it may simply be ideas or registered prototypes that often never go off paper. We will have to be attentive to the news that the Nintendo give us in the coming months, since it seems that this coming 2016 will be decisive for its future, in which it will have to compete in a market where the brand PlayStation is once again synonymous with video games and fighting to regain consumer confidence after the disappointment of Wii U.