Nintendo president Kimishima not giving up on Wii U
Kimishima’s comments on NX mirror those of former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata who assured the public and investors alike the next console would be different from Wii or Wii U.
The Nintendo president also addressed some misunderstandings when an article on Nikkei suggested that he thought the Wii U was a failure. The timeline indicated that the NX could be ready in time for the annual E3 event by mid-2016.
The idea of a Nintendo theme park is certainly something which I’m sure many fans would welcome (if done right).
There’s a desire to keep Wii U owners happy – “to make sure that they are satisfied with their purchase and continue to enjoy playing on this platform” – but Nintendo didn’t share any specifics.
The Nintendo Wii and Wii U will still be hanging around, with the gaming company still preferring to keep valued information and updates on the much talked-about gaming console known as the Nintendo NX. That makes sense because if the console wants to be able to compete with the likes of PS4 and Xbox One, it definitely needs the power of a proper console, in terms of hardware and software, complete with all the elegant physical features. There’s really no way of confirming that this patent will have something to do with the NX, but I would hazard to say that the supplemental device is a 3DS or 2DS that will be compatible with the NX console, but that’s simply my own opinion.
However, the Wii U has shipped just 10 million units despite being released just a year later.
According to rumors, the NX might be launched in stores during summer as the production might increase over next year’s spring due to the plan of the company shipping 12 million units. But with the final Nintendo Direct for 2015 already set to focus on the “Super Smash Bros”, all information on the Nintendo NX may stream steadily starting 2016. “I don’t believe that there’s any real meaning behind it, and to be perfectly honest, I don’t know where it came from”, he told Time.
“At one point even Mr. Iwata was saying, you know, he sort of whispered to me, ‘Mr”.