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Illusion on 30 March 2016
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Cubedramirez said:

I've said this it feels like a dozen times already.

WE ALL HAVE SEEN THE NX CONTROLLER. Consoles are not developed in 6 months on a whim. They are designed when the current console has gone gold and the initial shipments are being manufactured.

There was a Mario Kart Wii U ad that ran in Japan with a very odd looking Wii U tablet blurred out that when examined closely showed key differences from the Wii U design.

https://sickr.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/redesigned_wii_u_game_pad_rumour.jpg?w=840

I may be wrong, obviously only e3 will prove it one way or another. But I am willing to bet a thousand internets that the NX controller looks strikingly similar to the blurred rectangle in that screen capture.

Your guess is as good as anybody's about what the NX controller might look like, but I just think that Nintendo got burned so badly by the fact that so many people confused the Gamepad for a Wi add-on that they will make sure that the NX controller is unmistakenly different in appearance from anything related to the Wii U.  I mean, a lot of the people who saw the video above originally thought that the device shown was some kind of slim-Gamepad that was going to be released for the Wii U: just imagine if that is in fact the NX controller and everybody who sees it thinks that it is just an add-on for the Wii U when it comes out!