PS4.5 accelerated by AMD, Nintendo NX with Nvidia as a partner?

Builds Sony the PS4.5 about not voluntarily? Current rumored console manufacturers suppliers AMD was forced to the transitional period between PlayStation 4 and PlayStation. 5 Nintendo however, takes a different approach and uses in the manufacture of its NX well on Nvidia as partner.

AMD dominated the console market. The chipmaker currently delivers hardware components for the Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U. While all major console producers cooperated in the past, once with Nvidia together. Experience with the first Xbox, the PlayStation 3 and the early days of Nintendo 3DS brought Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, however, to switch pivot from Nvidia on AMD as partner for graphics chips. Only Nintendo is considering now appear to make a new attempt with Nividia the construction of its Nintendo NX.

Nintendo NX with Nvidia graphics?
Impetus for this new rumor was NeoGAF member NateDrake who reports in a forum post from an interview with Nintendo insider Emily Rogers. However, they did not want much more betrayed than that Nvidia will be involved in Nintendo's future hardware - a very vague statement which does not necessarily fit on the recent speculation that Nintendo NX will technically more can not keep up with the consoles of its competitors. Just Nvidia it comes but usually ask you to deliver high-end performance.

PS4.5 only under pressure from AMD?
Whether the Nintendo NX actually relies on Nvidia graphics, could be shown at the Tokyo Game Show 2016 in September. There, the Wii U successor is like the PS4.5 - allegedly revealed - or PlayStation 4K or PS4 Neo. That will come a further development of the PS4 before Sony sends its popular console in the next generation, now seems virtually certain.

However, this step is apparently not entirely voluntary, as Gamepur reported. As the gaming website infers from a Reddit listing, Sony could have been set by AMD under pressure. The supplier plans probably a production change that before the decision, the Japanese console manufacturer: If we follow also the new standard or we insist on the old, which could bring an increase in the production cost? Here, too, is ultimately only a rumor. Finally, PS4.5 is not even officially.

Nintendo NX is not a direct successor of Wii U & 3DS

The Nintendo NX is a new type of console and not a direct successor to Wii U and 3DS. That said Nintendo President Kimishima in an interview.

With the Nintendo NX the manufacturer wants to offer a new gaming experience. (© Nintendo)

When asked about his thoughts on the next-generation console Nintendo NX (translated by NeoGAF user GSR in English) Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima told the Japanese magazine Asahi Shimbun: "It is something completely new, the hardware, the software. lineup, all of it I want to play for the first time itself. " The release of the console is in March 2017th "It's not just about whether the hardware is ready, but our software offering must be presentable," said Kimishima.

A new way to play
"The NX is not the successor to the Wii U still the 3DS. It is a new way to play games that will have a greater impact than U Wii, but I do not consider the NX for easy replacement of the Wii U." The Nintendo President's Interview on the assumption that the NX will slow sales of the Wii U. Negative consequences for the 3DS but he does not recognize.

Also the price of the console are Kimishima first indications. So Nintendo could not make a loss with its consoles. In addition, there is a certain expectation of customer over the price of Nintendo consoles. Just because it is a new platform, one could not make more expensive, so the Nintendo president.

The change gaming life
Already last year had Kimishimas predecessor Satoru Iwata pointed against the Japanese business magazine Nikkei on the company's current strategy: "easy to develop already existing hardware is boring in any way we always think about how we want to surprise the players and how we Gaming. can change -life of each. "

Known release date: Nintendo NX comes only in March 2017

Nintendo has now more or less confirmed the release date of Nintendo NX itself. According to an internal document, the console will appear only in March 2017th

Whether the NX controller will really look like is still unclear.

Recently numerous leaks were always assume that the Nintendo NX should be at least partly to buy in the fall 2016th However, the Japanese group has apparently other plans. How Gematsu reports citing a financial report from Nintendo, there of March is called 2017 as the release month. "For our console business, we are currently developing a platform, codenamed 'NX' with a brand new concept. The NX comes in March 2017 to market worldwide." More details about the device are not mentioned in the financial report.

• Nintendo NX: Console + handheld?

According to recent rumors, the Nintendo NX actually consist of two parts: the real console called "Reach" and one handheld with the name "limit". While "Reach" in the fall of 2016 should come to market, "limit" for spring 2017 was scheduled. The price of the console will be 350 dollars, the handheld it will be on sale for 199 dollars. The "Reach" is not intended to be backward compatible with Wii U games, but should be easily portable games. As the storage medium cartridges are intended similar to the 3DS. The games are aimed at both hardcore and casual gamers on.

The first concrete details for Nintendo NX want the Japanese betrayed reportedly still in April - probably at the investor conference, which was scheduled for today, Wednesday.

Nintendo NX will come with screen controls & Remote Play

Last week, new rumors to Nintendo NX: The console that still should celebrate 2016 release, is reportedly come with a controller with display on the market. So far, so familiar. Thanks to remote play-like feature to users but also go to gamble NX games.

If the remote play feature to the core element of the new Nintendo console? According to NeoGAF user 10k this rumor is one at least of the most hotly debated. From three sources of Insider claims to have learned that the Nintendo NX will come with some form of screen controls on the market. The game pad is designed to enable users to access while on the move on their NX Games. However, the handheld is likely do not possess strong computing power. Instead, equipped with remote play home

console is supposed to communicate via Wi-Fi hotspots or using the portable NX controller.

"Nintendo Stream": main feature as a name?
Perhaps Nintendo could then sell accessories such as hotspot USB adapter in addition to the console. This would gamepad with Internet supply and let you connect to an external power source. Because of its streaming capability, meanwhile, a new name for the console in circulation: Nintendo Stream. And although the controller with display for play to go apparently the main element of Nintendo NX to be, wants producers rumored the not refrain from selling additional handheld consoles. After all, should the functionality of NX controller go still subject to some restrictions. The take-away use is intended to be a nice add-on.

Nintendo NX: twice as much GPU power as the PS4?
In addition to the screen controls there are still more new rumors about the upcoming Nintendo console. According to NeoGAF post nevertheless confirm two inside sources that "Luigi's Mansion 3" is for NX in development. Originally probably intended as a title for the unsuccessful Wii U, Nintendo shifts the release may be due to later in the year in order to offer the game directly for NX can. Last but speculated another insider source via the processor of the console. With a Polaris-like GPU NX could theoretically at least twice have as much graphics power like Sony's PS4. Achieved the Nintendo console so similar dimensions as the hotly debated PlayStation 4K? This will probably only become clear in June when the Japanese console - will reveal - presumably on the E3.

Nintendo NX: First Controller Photo was probably still a fake

A week ago a first allegedly genuine photo of the controller of Nintendo NX had appeared on the Internet. Now, a Reddit user claimed that he did so is a joke - and post a video evidence.

Almost exactly one week a first supposedly real photo of the controller of the next console Nintendo NX had surfaced on Reddit. Following the publication passed many observers considerable doubt whether the picture was really genuine - and these doubts seem to confirm now according to a report from Kotaku. A Reddit user named Idriss2Dev posted accordingly on Thursday a YouTube video on the platform, in which he claimed to be behind the Fake controller. In the roughly two-minute clip to see how the picture of Nintendo NX controller is put together with Photoshop.

What about the new leak pictures?

Despite this supposed resolution of the Controller Leaks one big question remains: what about the

other two photos of Nintendo NX pads that surfaced this week? These images appeared namely far more convincing than the first leak Photo. In addition, the controller is very reminiscent of a patent which Nintendo had submitted in September 2015 and describing a control tool which is virtually only one display.

Even if the first photo of the Nintendo NX controller therefore was actually a fake, that does not mean that the final pad the console is not yet looks exactly.

Crass Video: Extremely much effort for false NX controller

In recent days, alleged images of the controller of the new Nintendo NX made the rounds on the Internet. already after the first image has been unmasked by the author as a hoax, one sees now in stark video, has emerged with as much effort as the second controller forgery.

The rumors about the new console Nintendo NX, which will be presented later this year, according to the Japanese manufacturer, and will probably also come to the market, cook ever higher. In the last week there have been various rumors, which should show the new controller of the console. First, a pretty bad image - and then a much better. The second alleged leak also experts were of the opinion that this could well indicate the future controller of Nintendo.

After the first outing the second Faker moved to fast

After but on Friday the first forger unmasked itself, also revealed the creators of the second controller on how much effort they put into their forgery, Polygon reports now. Fun Fact: After the first forger has outed himself attracted the second fraudster quickly with the self-unmasking. They had probably afraid that their elaborate fake project otherwise goes generally counterfeiters bustle.

What is certain is that the immense effort that the second Faker for the alleged controller of Nintendo NX have driven, is absolutely remarkable. In a video, the two show how the production process is just expired. Not only does the wrong controller comes from the 3D printer. The windscreen was cut with a laser cutter - and such a device is still rare. When printing the way technology was used, which is also the Smartphone printer OLO, a new Kickstarter project.