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Akeos said:
You want to know the whole truth about the NX?

NX software is primarily an OS based on the OS of the WiiU (remember that the WiiU uses an ARM processor to touner the OS, not the PowerPC that runs the OS). This OS is probably developed to run on ARM as well as on X86 ...

NX is then a hardware into 2 parts:

- A portable console, that part will surely be a portable WiiU (a powerful ARM processor will replace the PowerPC, as Microsoft emulates the PowerPC of the X360 with the X86 of Xboxone, Nintendo emulate the PowerPC of WiiU with ARM on the NX )

- House module ... this is where some make mistake ... and it is even the center of the NX strategy! this is not a game console! Part of the house is ... a SERVER! and it is this part that is the new concept!



A server ??? you say WTF !!! ???

I'll explain how and why I came to this conclusion.

At first, I thought as some here that NX would be a handheld very close to the WiiU order to welcome their games, SSB, Splatoon Mario maker, MK8, Zelda WiiU .... in the launch window .. .

Iwata said:

"It Will Become importance for us to Accurately take advantage of what we-have done with the Wii U architecture"
"It Does not mean of course we are going to That uses exactly the Sami architecture as Wii U, we are going to aim create a system can absorb That the Wii U architecture adequately. When this happens, home consoles and handheld devices no follow Will be completely Call different, and They Will Become like brothers in a family of systems. "

I was thinking of a kind of inverted WiiU, APU, RAM, memory contained in the gamepad, the latter stream the second screen to the TV using an HDMI-connected case ... only the storage cartridge was problematic. ..

And one day ... STATIONARY GAME APPARATUS, GAME APPARATUS, GAME SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM SPEED CONTROL METHOD

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20150231511&OS=20150231511&RS=20150231511

And there! enlightenment! it is not a home console without an optical drive, but a SERVER!

look at this block diagramm:

http://images.p-nintendo.com/o/2015/08/55d7aa078f24c7.jpg

You can see HDD, can connect an External HDD, 2 blocks type flash memory, two communication units (1 wireless, 1 which seems connected by cable to server ...) and in the middle one CPU that identifies, selects and rule their speed ...
Nintendo never puts network card or HDD in its consoles ...

You tell me ... what what binds the WiiU handhelp with this server?
Well another patent refers to this "RECORDING MEDIUM", it comes to this patent:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20150253932.pdf

On Fig.2:

http://abload.de/img/fig2kuqtr.jpg

as we can see, the game program comes from the "RECORDING MEDIUM" goes through the RECORDING MEDIUM LOADING UNIT to be stored in non-volatile memory in a portable console.

You begin to understand? Nintendo will sell a portable console (probably WiiU handhelp) and use a house module> WiFi HDD for storing games and display on TV.


But this is only the beginning! ;) If you look at that other patent:

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=8&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=Nintendo.AANM.&OS=AANM/Nintendo&RS=AANM/Nintendo

it seems obvious that this "Supplemental Computing Devices For Game Consoles" = "GAME STATIONARY APPARATUS"

This is a server that is used for storing games data; for display on TV screen via HDMI; For Online (massively multi-player) and finally to Cloud Computing (virtualization, shared and remote calculation)

The new concept behind the NX is actually a system CLOUD COMMUNITY! Nintendo will sell online as material (unlike Sony and MS who sell it as service) and small personal network servers form the online infrastructure of Nintendo.
In the latter patent it is even expressed a system of cloud mining, but we will not win the bitcoins but Nintendo Points on MYNINTENDO ... more leave us our server available to the community, the more you will win Nintendo Points ...

In short, NX is a portable WiiU ($ 200) + a small personal server (100 to $ 150) for storing games, the display on TV, online gaming, a system of cloud computing ... They will sold together, but I think the server is also sold alone for the WiiU and integrate it into the NX system ...

 

Plausible and intriguing, you may want to simplify it for everyone else though.