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Nintendo’s next console announced, code-named “NX”

Nintendo’s on a roll today. In addition to announcing the long-awaited jump to smartphones, the company also revealed that it is working on a brand-new piece of hardware which is currently code-named “NX”.

At the same press conference where news of Nintendo’s smartphone ambitions emerged, Kotaku writes that president Satoru Iwata briefly mentioned the “NX” to assuage concerns that the move to smartphones could mean Nintendo was no longer going to be as much about the “dedicated video game system” market as before.

Iwata didn’t go into specifics, however, so don’t get too excited just yet.

All he said about it was “As proof that Nintendo maintains strong enthusiasm for the dedicated game system business, let me confirm that Nintendo is currently developing a dedicated game platform with a brand new concept under the development codename ‘NX’.”

While it’s certainly encouraging to hear this directly from Iwata himself, he also said that more information about this new system is only going to be coming next year. Boo.

In the meantime, we can only speculate. Since the 3DS was recently upgraded with improved 3D capabilities, it makes sense that this new piece of hardware would actually be a brand-new console and not a handheld, one that could possibly even replace the Wii U since it hasn’t exactly been setting the gaming world alight.

The key, according to Kotaku, is in the words “brand new concept”. Since Nintendo has a great fairly good track record of coming up with and executing on some truly outrageous ideas (think the original Wii, forget the Wii U), whatever the NX turns out to be could be pretty revolutionary.

Now if only there wasn’t a year to wait for more info.

[Source – Kotaku, Image – CC BY-SA 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons by Takimata]

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