Miyamotoo said:
Its almost certain that NX will use x86 or ARM from AMD. So they definitely know when Nintendo will launch console/s, but they cant say chip for Nintendo product that will be release in November because Nintendo didn't revealed NX yet.
Also this semi custom design win already was mentioned by AMD at end of 2014. What console manufacturer talked about new platform in 2014!? Just Nintendo. "We would have at least one to two semi-custom design wins and I’m pleased to report that we have those design wins, the work to design the products that has already started, the contract assigned and those parts get introduced in 2016. We didn’t say at which space it is in. I’m not going to give too much detail. I’ll say that one is x86 and one is ARM, and atleast one will be on gaming, right. But that’s about as much as you going to get out me today, because the customers from the standpoint to be fair to them. It is their product. They launch it. They announce it and then just like the game console or the parts you find out that its AMD’s APU that’s been used in those products." |
A lot of things really line up that Nintendo basically started planning the NX project in 2014.
Iwata mentioned a new definition of gaming coming that would take two years to realize in 1st half 2014, at the end of 2014 they sign a deal with Sharp for free-form LCDs which won't be available until 2016 for mass production (we know now these types of LCDs are likely for a game controller per patent leaks), in 2014 AMD apparently wins a new gaming contract, and just now they reiterate they have a new semi-custom gaming business coming in 2nd half of 2016.
It looks an awful lot like Nintendo started making the central vendor component deals for NX back in 2014.