Nintendo has always been tight-lipped ever since it made the announcement about the coming of its next console offering Nintendo NX, leaving gamers to speculate. Thankfully, the studio's new president and CEO Tatsumi Kimishima dropped hints on what fans are actually waiting for.
"I can assure you we're not building the next version of Wii or Wii U. It's something unique and different. It's something where we have to move away from those platforms in order to make it something that will appeal to our consumer base," Kimishima told Time.
Kimishima did not go into detail about the Nintendo NX just yet, sticking with the company's word to talk about more of the next generation console next year. Interestingly, a patent filed June last year on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may provide clues on what the new equipment is all about.
According to Tech Insider, Joseph Thomas Bentdahl, a technical services specialist for Nintendo as stated in the patent, is credited as the one and only author of the patent, which is believed to have something to do with Nintendo's tightly wrapped new console on the way.
The Nintendo NX biggest giveaway in the patent is that Nintendo NX will purportedly be mobile and players can actually play it anywhere. This suggests that the platform will include a mobile or a handheld component.
More on that aspect, the patent also says that the console can be "mobile, semi-mobile, semi-stationary or stationary." In a nutshell, it can be used as or at least connect to any form of computer device, suggesting the equipment's versatility.
Nintendo NX reportedly comes with a game console and a "supplemental computing device" whose functionality differs in how far or near a gamer is to the main console. When it's the latter, it should be able to process "at a nearly real-time speed."
When it's the former, "far away devices may only be able to provide asynchronous or supplementary support to the events occurring on the console (e.g. providing for weather effects in games, artificial intelligence, etc.)."
