Nintendo Announcing New Hardware?
It’s no secret that Nintendo has been struggling especially when compared to the original Wii and it’s current competition. With E3 mere weeks away, is it possible for Nintendo to announce a new console despite the fact that they are skipping on their press conference?
For now a lot of sites have also confirmed of hearing that a new hardware announcement from Nintendo is right around the corner. The sources include: Gamerevolution, MCV and Videogamer.
Some sources confirmed that it will be playable on the E3 show floor and that it is comprised of two parts, Fusion DS and Fusion Terminal. The specs are said to be similar to that what we heard earlier this year:
Fusion DS:
– CPU: ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 GPU: Custom Adreno 420-based AMD GPU
– COM MEMORY: 3 GB LPDDR3 (2 GB Games, 1 GB OS)
– 2 130 mm DVGA (960 x 640) Capacitive Touchscreen
– Slide Out Design with Custom Swivel Tilt Hinge
– Upper Screen made of Gorilla Glass, Comes with Magnetic Cover
– Low End Vibration for Gameplay and App Alerts
– 2 Motorized Circle Pads for Haptic Feedback
– Thumbprint Security Scanner with Pulse Sensing Feedback
– 2 1mp Stereoptic Cameras
– Multi-Array Microphone
– A, B, X, Y, D-Pad, L, R, 1, 2 Buttons 3 Axis Tuning Fork Gyroscope, 3 Axis Accelerometer, Magnetometer
– NFC Reader
– 3G Chip with GPS Location
– Bluetooth v4.0 BLE Command Node used to Interface with Bluetooth Devices such as Cell Phones, Tablets
– 16 Gigabytes of Internal Flash Storage (Possible Future Unit With 32 Gigabytes)
– Nintendo 3DS Cart Slot
– SDHC “Holographic Enhanced” Card Slot up to 128 Gigabyte Limit
– Mini USB I/O
– 3300 mAh Li-Ion battery
Fusion Terminal:
– 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
All this points to a similar Wii U design, having a gamepad with screen and a dedicated console. At the same time this Gamepad will have a higher resolution capacitive touchscreen, with a much bigger battery. Also the built in memory and CPU imply that the gamepad won’t need the home console in order to run some of basic functions.
Will anything come out of all this, we will have to wait till June 10th in order too see.
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