Nintendo Rumored to be Readying 'Fusion' Home & Handheld Consoles

[Intellivision]

ZACK,

I'm no technical buff, but based purely on what's on the list a number of stats seem better than X1/PS4...

- CPU
- GPU
- HDMI port that is 2.0
- SSD 300 gb drive (if someone prefers 300 gb SSD over 500 gb optical)

 

[Kassen]

Make it rain, Nintendo!

 

[VVVAizen93]

Sounds too far fecthed and even if it's true N so called new console won't be released next year. A part of me wants it to be true tho.

 

[TeKPhaN]

It was for jumping jumping off the sinking ship?!

Yeah dropped the Wii U for the X1.

 

[Li Tan]

Shucks just sold mine

Should have sold it to me.
The library is probably enough to last me, now. Sure, a future library is nice, but I don't buy consoles for the potential, I buy them for what's available the day I fork out. Very little buyer's remorse.

 

[Jay Mammoth]

Should have sold it to me.
The library is probably enough to last me, now. Sure, a future library is nice, but I don't buy consoles for the potential, I buy them for what's available the day I fork out. Very little buyer's remorse.

Great library already.

 

[Li Tan]

'zackly

I don't play much, a dozen games will do. I'll grab the multis like AC4, too.

 

[TeKPhaN]

Decent IMO not great....nor is the current PS4/X1 library but they haven't been out over a year.

 

[Jay Mammoth]

Decent IMO not great....nor is the current PS4/X1 library but they haven't been out over a year.

For people that love Nintendo games its great, you never even played Mario 3D World.

 

[Ceger]

Nope

 

[TeKPhaN]

For people that love Nintendo games its great, you never even played Mario 3D World.

No I haven't... The games I luv from them aren't available.

 

[ZombiesRUCrazy]

would be amazing, but I call bs.

 

[Hissatsu]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-after-wii-u-flop.html?cmpid=otbrn.tech.story



That's never good news.



Three years from now the XB1/PS4 war will be at its boiling point and I really doubt anyone will want to hear of a new console so soon.



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-fire-after-failing-to-meet-wii-u-pledge.html

I'd damn sure buy a new nintendo system in 3 years if it came out with a lot better specs than xb1/ps4 and I haven't owned a nintendo system since the 64. Xb1 and ps4 have crap specs and if Nintendo came out with something amazing spec wise and got good 3rd party support it would be a wrap.

 

[Oblong]

It would seem smart for Nintendo to release their systems smack in the middle of the other consoles generations. With Sony/MS going about 8 years per gen, Nintendo should release a system in year 4 that could allow them to make a slightly more powerful system at a lower price. They would get the hardcore crowd and support from 3rd party devs during year 1-4 and then have the strength of their 1st party stuff to carry them through year 5-8.

Also, come back to a more standard controller to and stop trying to be innovative with it. The timing of WiiU was horrible, had it come out 3 years earlier with a regular controller I don't think it would have been in this position right now. It's easy to see with hindsight but they should act on it going forward.

 

[Li Tan]

Actually, I think it was obvious the Wii U controller wasn't going to be a selling point even before the FIRST Wii was even revealed, 6 or so years ago.

If you remember they said the reaction to the DS would determine what was going to happen with the 'Revolution'. People feared a controller with a touch screen on it, and the feedback was unanimously negative.
When the 'Revolution' was revealed as the Wii, the Wiimote was revealed, of course there were negative nancies, but there was also a sigh of relief and tremendous buzz and interest as it captured peoples' imagination. There were massive queues at E3 and people dreaming about swordfights and boxing games.
Why they went back to a concept that people poo-pooed pre-emptively years before is a mystery.
That's not to say the Wii U sucks, but the hardware's USP sucks.

 

[The Wolf King]

 

[ZombiesRUCrazy]

With Sony/MS going about 8 years per gen.

I'm pretty sure this last gen being 8 years was not the norm. Previous gens were usually 5-6 years.

 

[The Living Tribunal]

Yeah my guess this isn't going to happen, but if it is, are the specs they listed any good?

• 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

I'm not a specs guy, but where would these specs put the "Terminal" in comparison to PS4 and X1?

Yes. The specs are better. Especially the GPU...

 

[Ceger]

Yes. The specs are better. Especially the GPU...

The GPU is the biggest load of cr@p. It is a fanboy unrealistic wet dream without understanding anything about GPU's.

 

[Mua'dib]

The GPU is the biggest load of cr@p. It is a fanboy unrealistic wet dream without understanding anything about GPU's.

Are you trying to imply GPUs don't run on Fairy Dust and Ooompaloompa Tears?

 

[The Living Tribunal]

The GPU is the biggest load of cr@p. It is a fanboy unrealistic wet dream without understanding anything about GPU's.

Agreed.

 

[sharkboy1200]

Actually, I think it was obvious the Wii U controller wasn't going to be a selling point even before the FIRST Wii was even revealed, 6 or so years ago.

If you remember they said the reaction to the DS would determine what was going to happen with the 'Revolution'. People feared a controller with a touch screen on it, and the feedback was unanimously negative.
When the 'Revolution' was revealed as the Wii, the Wiimote was revealed, of course there were negative nancies, but there was also a sigh of relief and tremendous buzz and interest as it captured peoples' imagination. There were massive queues at E3 and people dreaming about swordfights and boxing games.
Why they went back to a concept that people poo-pooed pre-emptively years before is a mystery.
That's not to say the Wii U sucks, but the hardware's USP sucks.

I don't think the tablet was a good idea either. In a nutshell, some people would see it as a tablet that needs a small box to tag along with it.