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Forums - Nintendo - The Pokemon Company CEO basically confirmed that NX is hybrid

Soundwave on 20 September 2016
Game_God said:
Soundwave said:
SMD64 is not a poster here, that's different from being in a thread discussion with someone and lobbing insults at another poster. Not a big deal, just sayin'. Anyways, lets drop it.

Let's do that, one of us or either of us is going to eat crow on this, so we shall see eventually! If I'm wrong, I'll eat my crow graciously*, as I've posted before, I don't know what NX actually is, not commited 100% on AMD providing for a home console, maybe it's a hybrid of some sort, but my belief from what I read so far makes me lean towards that hypothesis... but I'm not pedantic about it, brushing with the back of the hand any other opinion. When I read you in here, you sound like your theory is 100% fact proven & confirmed, not up to debate & anybody having another opinion on the matter must be ignorant or blind. Suit yourself, if you end up being right, congrats, if I'm right, I'll be the same person from the day before, not better or worse... In the end what I want is to play games, I don't play processors or brands!

 

* as a matter of fact I have already looked for a crow avatar in case I lose, so you see, I'm very nervous about losing on this matter ;)

There isn't any proof for the "other side". It's just SMD64's hopes and dreams. 

Eurogamer/Digital Foundry, IGN/Peer Schneider (confirmed by multiple sources), LPVG, Wall Street Journal, Semi Accurate, Kotaku all say hybrid. This quote also heavily hints at that. 

If it was false just IMO someone reputable would've at minimum said "Nah, that's bullshit, guys". But no one has and it's been several weeks now. 

Personally I trust Peer from IGN, I've been following Nintendo online since 1995 (yupppp, that long, N64 unveiling) and he's been covering Nintendo since then, he knows his shit. 



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Miyamotoo on 21 September 2016
spemanig said:
Miyamotoo said:

And hybrid cant be platform!? You realise that 3DS and Wii U are seperate platforms.

What exatly I make up!?

No, they were consoles. Reggie literally made the distinction in the quote, dude. Nintendo has been very deliberate about differenciating a platform from a system. They consider iOS and Androids platforms. A hybrid is a singular system. Your bit about not referencing platforms since 2013 was made up. And don't get pedantic about bringing up the specifics of "brothers." They've been explicit and consistent about what a platform means since they introduced the word into their corperate vocabulary. When they say platform, they mean brothers. That's what it means.

And like @Soundwave wrote, multiply Nintendo exes called it device or console, so can be either of way, but point is that NX is almost certain hybrid devaice, will be there some other devices in same line is totally different matter and we can't know that for now, but at this point we know that NX that is coming in March is hybrid devaice.

 

Game_God said:
Miyamotoo said:

Thats point, everything indicates that NX is really hybrid, nothing indicates that NX is platform with multiple separate devices.

 

 

I said infos with purpose because EG don't make whole article based just on some random rumours, they had confirmations for infos they had.

 

That wasn't nothing recently, that was from January 2013. but this statement is from March 2014. when they were more ahad with NX plans:

IWATA: "Still, I am not sure if the form factor (the size and configuration of the hardware) will be integrated.

  Whether we will ultimately need just one device will be determined by what consumers demand in the future, and that is not something we know at the moment. However, we are hoping to change and correct the situation in which we develop games for different platforms individually and sometimes disappoint consumers with game shortages as we attempt to move from one platform to another, and we believe that we will be able to deliver tangible results in the future."

 

 

Agree, in time when Iwata said this they probably start pushing hard to hybrid idea.

Don't forget that part of the quote: "In contrast, the number of form factors might increase. Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we would face serious shortages of software on every platform."

It goes either way, he says maybe 1 maybe more than 2, so it proves nothing!

Again, all EG have are rumours, facts need evidence!

No, that actually proves that one singular device was definitely possible in their plans and most likely path they choose because year earlier they basically said there will not be one singular device and year later they changed their mind.

I would say EG have pretty reliable infos, but they are not definitely facts.