We all want to see the Nintendo NX, and we all want to know when it's going to be fully revealed. Nintendo is testing the patience of fans, and from conversations we've had even the patience of some smaller developers; Nintendo's evidently been keeping the project secret and limiting briefings to a limited number of partners. If recent rumours are correct, some retailers are also being shown high-level information on the hardware.
In any case the thirst for solid information - aside from 'details' from all those people with Aunts and Uncles that work at Nintendo - is very real, and as a result comfort is found in the most minor of leads. An example has popped up on Reddit, via a forum post by a Nintendo of Europe employee on the Nintendo Developer Portal. It states that details are coming this year, but something being missed by many is that this forum post is either from 9th May (if it's the European date format as we'd expect in this case) or 5th September (North American format). Either way, it's old.
With that date in mind, it does provide a small but interesting insight into the fact that smaller developers in particular are long frustrated by the lack of detail and access to dev kits. We know of multiple 'Nindies' or other indie devs that have been anxious to get involved with the system, but haven't been able to get access.
In any case, this is what the NX information hunt is currently stuck with. Occasionally rumours have some form of veracity, or a level of trust in the sources at least, and many don't. Sometimes forum posts from the Spring are needed to keep hopes of a nearby reveal alive.
Here's hoping that mutterings and suggestions of an October reveal are accurate, as frankly it'll benefit everyone concerned.
[source reddit.com]
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I just wish they would come out with at least a date to unveil it before it legit gets leaked. Maybe it'll serve Nintendo right because of how secretive it has been, but as a fan, I'd rather see it from an official source than a leaker.
If they want third party and indie support they need to get the console revealed and start rolling out dev kits very soon. Unless they plan to delay the console further, most developers outside major publishers are already looking at less than a 6 month turnaround time to get titles ported to the system, and there's simply no time for new titles to be developed for it for launch. I'm sure some developers could chug out one or two though. That would not be a good look for your new eShop, Nintendo, you don't want the only titles on there asides the £50 retail games and 1st party stuff being whatever chancers can churn out a game in a tiny timeframe
pls, i'm not desperate for details on the NX, news site are... i've been told many times that the NX will be release in march 2017... so until then, i don't really care for details...
NX info coming on 31st December at 23:59:59.
The North American date format is the only good and correct date format. Month/Day/Year is the best!
Hmm....this is...concerning.
@abbyhitter Wrong. America again, eh? Not just satisfied with messing up the spelling of the English language. It goes in ascending periods of time.
Day/Month/Year
Simple. Or so you would think. But then they can't even spell ColoUr right.
I understand that there have been so many tech reveals/announcements/releases over the last 2 months that Nintendo is trying to ensure it has a good 2 weeks post reveal without any other company showing off new tech. I respect that, no matter how crazy it is making all of us to not have solid details. Nintendo HAS to get this right.
Wait, this post doesn’t mention they’re doomed at all. Obviously fake.
Continuing my MCU-related gif trend of today, let's suppose Nintendo fans are Captain America, their questions are his shield and Nintendo is the Winter Soldier...
I was actually just looking for an excuse to post that gif with its awesomely smooth animation@WhiteTrashGuy It's a problem and a blessing. Unfortunately, it's put me in a very precarious scenario. A game to be revealed soon, was originally planned to be funded for Wii U, and now that's not likely, so we wanted to pledge for funding for NX, and now THAT might not be happening.
This leads us to a crossroads, the next best place outside of PC is PS4, but that gets expensive fast, and the middleware we utilise isn't suited for PS4 for whatever reason.
For independent developers, this is very much a nightmare.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Color Splash > Colour Splash
@abbyhitter Wrong again.
Was the purpose of this article just to suggest NX reveal in 2016? What Iwata said way back in March of 2015?
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/26566-nintendo-hardware-announcement-planned-for-2016-codename-nx/
https://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/03/new-nintendo-console-codenamed-nx-details-coming-2016/
http://kotaku.com/nintendos-next-console-is-code-named-the-nintendo-nx-1691867268
Investor conference call at the end of October, investors will demand something at that point. Maybe not a true reveal, but they'll have to at least speak out loud about the March date, maybe some numbers and games as well. So that meeting will probably force their hand to reveal it before then. Two weeks tops.
Expects complete third party support but dont give said third parties the tools to support you, I got it right? Even after the delays to get "more games ready" for the system..
I suppose the date is in US format due to the timestamp being "PM", in europe, we use 24h format
I can fully understand and appreciate the lack of Information for the NX. Everytime Nintendo is innovative, they get copied fast: it began with the analog stick and controller vibration, both copied by Playstation very quickly, continued with Motion Controls (everybody laughed at the idea until the Wii was a success and Move and Kinect suddenly were a thing...) and even the WiiU Gamepad got copied! Think of GTA V and Fallout 4 - both support smart devices as an additional touchscreen interface!
And what happens now?
Nintendo keeps the NX as secret as possible and both Sony and Microsoft don't come out with a new console, only console upgrades... Makes you wonder why
@huxxny Because you'll just buy it whatever it is?
I don't know about the rest of y'all, but i'm not desperate at all. Backlog+other platforms=just another day.
What was the point of this article? What is interesting about this post? What leads does it offer?
@abbyhitter Nah man, year/month/day it's the only true date format!
@abbyhitter
Trying to pull some playful trolling on @SLIGEACH_EIRE is pointless. Believe me, I tried - that's one chill dude!
The OUYA 2 will come before the NX.
OUYA master race!
If they delay the NX (as some people fear) then that means a even bigger Wii u games drought. Because the Wii u is really done and dusted, Paper Mario color splash being the last game of interest. I think that's just very bad, but what can we do about it?!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Hey! We Americans don't need the extra Us!
@Rutana This comment needs to be pinned at the top of the site.
Indie developers are most likely to leak information... they have far less to lose compared to major developers, and are often less experienced with PR, so are more likely to slip up... if Nintendo do give dev kits to any indie developers, it will only be to the ones they can trust the most.
Desperation for NX Details Even Makes an Old Forum Post Interesting
...nope!
@argh4430 indeed, gamers have tons of content to keep them occupied, the only "desperate" ones here are Nintendo Life, who's taking basically any excuse to post shoddy "news" to generate ad revenue. One can sympathise, but the non-news they post lately are just absurd.
I think Nintendo keeping quiet at this point with the NX is actually starting to p/o people more than get them excited for the system
@Nintendolife
It may sound silly for me to suggest this, but has anyone actually asked Nintendo for details or announcement date?
Let's start there... yeah?
I just want to know where that header image came from, because that doesn't look like any Mario cartoon that I've ever seen before!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
"*Not just satisfied with cleaning up the spelling of the English language."
Fixed that for you! 😉
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
What? You mean color?
@strongest_link no simply cuz if i don't have access to it, i don't care, the same way i don't watch movie trailers, i watch movies... the only one who should care about any info about the NX, are devs, THEY need info and access to dev kits, not me...
i mean, don't get me wrong, any info about the NX is welcome, just not required, they won't make me more happy, worst case scenario they'll just me less happy since in won't have access to it yet,... just like LoZ BotW, i'm happy to know its coming, i want it, but i didn't watch the nintendo E3 event cuz i didn't want any sploilers to ruin the experience for me once i finally get my ends on it... (i actually had to avoid twitter for a while after its reveal) the only info i want about the new LoZ, its is release date, nothing else, i can make my own opinion on it as if its good or not, i don't need a review of it... and the same is true for the NX, i just want to experience it myself, and i'm not afraid to wait a little!!
@msvt You're joking, right?
You're joking. You have to be.
All ambiguous date formats should be banned! It should be either year/month/day or month name.
I would be shocked if Nintendo didn't reveal by the Investor Meeting on the 26th. Either they reveal it before then or information from the meeting will get out... unless Nintendo doesn't mention the NX at all during it (which would be really silly).
Honestly, I thought they would reveal it late July or early August. With all of the Pokemon Go hype and publicity, the reveal would have shot all around the world. Then the Mario Run reveal in September to keep up publicity, then the release of the NES Mini on November. Hopefully this is still there plan, but they're just swapping the reveal from August to October.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I hope you're well aware that in america they have the original English spelling of words, and England started to spell things different (and called soccer football) to separate themselves from america.
So if anyways, England is wrong, not america
This is great and all, but will Socks the Cat be released on the NX?
And what's up with Socks II, Supply-Side's Revenge?
@abbyhitter day then month then year. This is the original incremental order and makes sense. Incremental order is handy when counting with numbers, you wouldn't swap units and tens.
@SPG Differences between language varieties grow with time depending on a wide variety of factors, there's no right or wrong spelling. This whole conversation is just silly tribalism.
Guys. English is regional now. Each locale (including England) has evolved the language over time (often by borrowing from local culture). There is no "true" or "correct" version so long as it grammatically correct within that region's dialect. Let. It. Go. Stop trying to use it as a "hurr durr America is stoopid" jibe. I swear if we spent half as much time picking on other countries as they do on us...
I will say that it is dumb that we don't use the metric system in America...but I'm a scientist so, of course I feel that way. I do prefer month/day/year however.
While it may be a cause to worry, since the NX may not have indies at the beginning, It also opens the interesting question of how difficult it was for indies when dev kita were just released for Wii U. Was there a lot of problems for Indies then too?
And for the other discussion... Day/month/year is the way to go. Plus, Metric system for the win!
@Damo i don't think he's joking... Because yeah no one has tried to ask Nintendo when their next console is releasing, or for hardware specs. 😶
@SPG Please tell me that's it's just bad sarcasm?
We don't know that all indies haven't got the Dev kit, we only know some don't. People aren't going to really go out of their way to say they have it when they don't want to lose their good relationship with Nintendo.
@SPG Actually you're wrong about the whole soccer/football thing..
http://howto.yellow.co.nz/sports-and-fitness/footballsoccer/why-is-it-called-soccer/
It was the British who actually invented the word soccer which comes from "assoc" or "association football" (which evolved to "soccer" at some point) then you guys took it i guess..
BTW i'm not British i just know stuff (google is my friend )..
@AfterAnAutopsy We speak with Nintendo on a regular basis. Do you honestly think we - and no other site - has asked?
They're on lock-down. They're not saying anything to anyone. They're even censoring interviews with Nintendo staff which don't even have any new information on NX.
@huxxny Fair enough.
@SPG It's a little more complicated than that. British English retains our in quite a few words: neighbour, labour, colour, etc. Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or. However, the first borrowings into English were from early Old French via Latin using either of the endings -or or -ur. After 1066 and all that, the termination became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or.
American spellings of British -our were codified in Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary and thus became the norm in American English. It is said that the dictionary was compiled to show that American English was a separate dialect from British English. In that sense, for a few words, America changed the spelling to reflect the Latin root and omit the influence of the Old French of the Normans.
However, there are other words in the same group which used to end -our in British English but have long adopted the American spelling and now end in -or; emperour, errour, governour, horrour, tenour, terrour now are emperor, error, governor, horror, tenor, terror.
Language is always evolving and, of course, both spellings are correct. The issue arises when the brain notices something is not quite right and flags it as wrong. That's fine; the brain is supposed to do that.
@Rutana It's way too early for Sony and Microsoft to come out with entirely new consoles right now in any case. But I agree, both companies would probably try to copy what makes the NX novel if they could.
I'm sure I read today that someone got confirmation it's release date is still March.
Literally people posting stuff already known and creating a buzz out of it! It's insane.
All I would like to know about the future of the Virtual Console, or what they will do for the past catalogues.
Stop "reporting" about the NX until you actually have something worthwhile to report.
Nintendo is losing potential preorders as time goes on! WHERE IS THE NX!!!! ARGH!!!!
I completely understand Nintendo wanting to do this reveal right and on their terms. If that requires limiting who has access to the information to prevent any leaks, its understandable. Though, I can also see why an indie, who wants to support the console, would want to have a heads up
@RainbowGazelle It 'leads' to 58 comments and counting, that was the point of it.
They really want me to buy a PS4... only reason i'm not is to potentially save my money for NX.
@RainbowGazelle
There was no point. There hasn't been a point to any NX article published on this (or any) website beyond "Breaking News: the NX is a thing!". Everything else posted has just been unverified "rumors" or speculation that offer absolutely nothing informative or of any substance. It's just click-bait.
Oh, we can add rumour/rumor as another one of those words.
If Nintendo wants to entice third party developers (and really anyone they can) to end the Wii U support drought, withholding dev kits is probably not the best way...
@Damo Come on...
Every gaming site puts at least 1 or 2 articles a week about NX, Nintendo has only “censored" one article, ONE, the article even stated that Nintendo requested the site to remove that specific question, there’s a HUGE difference between censoring and requesting. You’re overreacting.
There’s a very obvious reason as to why they requested to remove that part of the interview, the Nintendo guy messed up, badly, he was assuming things by saying “Nintendo will MOST LIKELY hold a Nintendo Direct”, that could have led to a lot of misinformation, they need to keep things as clear as possible, leaving no room for "assuming guys".
@BensonUii Until Nintendo finally tell us something, every day is a slow NewX day... :3
@abbyhitter Damn right!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE "NX info coming on December 31st at 23:59:59."
My prediction is January 1st at 00:00:01 xD
A new year, a new generation of Nintendo!
@Damo i hope you know I was being sarcastic. Everyone and their mother has asked Nintendo these key questions. Those are like the first and most basic questions to ask that never get a straight answer. Nintendo has always been tight lipped about their products.
When I hear people people are getting upset about not knowing what a new video game console is going to be like, I can't help but be envious. Their lives are so problem free this is a big deal to them. File under first world problems
@abbyhitter yeah, because going from medium to small to large is logical
This article is also very ironic
@abbyhitter as a Bostonian, i can tell you the best way to spell color is culla.
My dad works for Nintendo and he says that they actually cancelled the NX about 4 months ago and just haven't got around to telling anyone yet.
As for the british spelling of things, having an extra, unnecessary u in color, armor, etc. just looks goofy
I bet NX release will be delayed, again.
Its too little time left to advertise it.
I expect it to be released in autumn 2017.
@abbyhitter You realise you're on a British/ European site, right?
@Damo
hey it's just an idea!
Got a better one?
NX is another nerfed system from the king of hardware and feature cuts.
I wonder what standard can Nintendo avoid this time to save a penny????
Perhaps they'll drop HDMI in favour of composite again.
I like having European and American English. It gives me two chances to get my spelling/grammer right.
@AlexSora89
Super soldiers have to do something in their spare time. Frisbee is as good a hobby as any.
@liveswired
Hopefully it's that 4K one. Lololol.
You know, the one that gives you upscaling only in games from 1080p instead....
Forget 2.5k to 4K like what would be the difference between 720p and HD native. No no, that's more like getting ER Standard to full HD standard.
Gimping consoles is marketing them as beasts, then delivering them as watered down entry level PC''a without any of their versatilities.
Sorry, I tell a lie. We now have 3 pre-set graphic options to choose from thanks to the pro...
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I rarely click like on comments on this site, but your comment most definitely deserved one.
I am not sure if I can devote my time to getting a game known as Paper Mario: Color Splash...
@abbyhitter
Light-hearted troll for the win.
I'm American and really day/month/year is the only sensible way to arrange it. Year/month/day seems good, but the two important ones would always have to trail a number that is seldom used, do day/month/year it should be.
month/day/year is what I must use, but yeah.
On color vs colour. That's just an extra dangling useless u. Just saying. No harm dumping that. I mean you know the difference between or and our right?
So... Who wants to start an NX Faith Congregation? We could call it "Iwata's Witnesses"! His grace was indeed the baptist- Yea, and in his divine gestures, he gaveth us assurance thine NX wouldst indeed launch as a true console successor with the holy grail of Zelda. Upon the morrow, I shalt dig up ye olde Ocarina of Time ads and posteth it unto the web of knowledge!
Let us pray. That the NX will indeed rise and bring about a new age. Fear not these trials and tribulations, for they indeed test our fortitude of mind and will! Be steadfast in your faith, and the NX will one day cometh!
Nay, none may speak for certain on thy holy launch date. Those who claim such knowledge are charlatans and devilish cretins! Nay, I say! None but The Creator Knows the divine workings of Luck, for they arte left to Heaven. Amario.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Thank the Normans for that lovely "-our" ending 😉
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
"Color" is better.
And if North America used the European date format, my birthdate would not be anywhere near as cool as it sounds when spoken.
#Europe'sFormatsAreBroken
@PlywoodStick
Preach.
@Phin68 Probably why the Wii U didn't sell well here in America...everyone was like, "Why do I need the extra 'U'?" so they ignored it and stuck with the Wii.
@Arctic_Nights Huh, I always wondered what the Battle of Hastings was fought over... Almost 1000 years, and silly Europeans and their descendants are STILL fighting over it!
...#TeamColor #MDYnotDMY
Nintendo is revealing the NX in March of 2017. Just desperately hoping it shows up before then.
Clearly one of you is actually a Nintendo rep sent here to derail the conversation on scant NX details into this argument about regional date differences and the proper spelling of color/colour. Sheesh!
My NX works for uncle and said that Nintendo will be revealed on April 35, 2003.
at this point the only thing I care about is if the NX is region free. I've sort of given up on everything else, and if news comes out tomorrow or next year, I don't really care anymore.
November 31st reveal, guys. Count on it.
@GizmoGadgets
That shield is a kick-backside frisbee, I know that much!
If you ask me, I think Nintendo does have a genuine reason to why they are doing it this way. They are doing with the NX similar to what they did with the Low Amiibo Stocks. Think about it; When Nintendo announced that amiibo restocks would not be for all amiibos, people went crazy. And whenever a new amiibo came out, people would make it their duty to go to the store first thing in the morning to make sure they got their hands on the 1 they wanted.
While not exactly the same with the NX; the business idea can be considered similar. Right now Nintendo fans are going crazy over this NX system, we want to know when it comes out, we want to know what it is, we want to know what games will be on it, there's all these questions we have and the more we're kept waiting, the more anxious we get.
If there's 1 thing companies love to use against us, it's our curiosity. By making us wait and drumming up our curiosity and impatience, Nintendo is almost certain to land a huge amount of attention to when this thing finally does get announced. I guarantee you that if they announced the NX was a thing and then revealed what it was after only a couple of months, the people wouldn't be as hyped because they have not had the chance to let their curiosity and interest reach peak levels.
If that really is what Nintendo is doing, then I say props to them for thinking this far ahead.
@NCChris ...Or, they just don't know exactly what they're doing anymore.
They didn't need to do this with the Ultra 64, Dolphin, Revolution, or even Project Café. Especially with the Ultra 64- it was revealed alongside Super Mario 64 as far back as E3 1995, even though the release wasn't until almost a year and a half later. (They even showcased a tech demo of a very early Ocarina of Time build, over 3 years before it released!)
This new (lack of a) publicity strategy is more likely to backfire on their core base. They're probably just trying to figure out how to rebrand and repurpose themselves, and go after the "blue ocean" again...
@Ryu_Niiyama
Well said Ryu, the comments are more interesting/entertaining then the article 😜
@aaronsullivan But having that excess of unnecessary stuff is what makes life grand!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Don't lump Canada in with the US. I've used Month/Date/Year since I was in Kindergarten, and I prefer it because it's the same way as people usually speak when talking about dates.
We also use "U" in our words.
Nintendo life never should have got rid of the little profile flags.
@EVIL-C That's the way people speak about dates in NA though. Although it is faster to say October 11 than "the 11th of October"... Also Canada uses some American spelling.
IMO There is no reason for the date to be in order, the year is usually irrelevant. When just the number is needed the month can be ignored.
Anyway this article really doesn't say much but yeah I don't think that's from May it sounds more like September. Oh well, let's keep waiting.
@Seanmyster6 American spellings are all bad. Seriously mom??? With perhaps the exception of jail. (Eng. gaol)
@ZeldaFan5991 What's wrong with "mom"?
Oh, well; at least we can agree on the superiority of "jail". (Seriously, anyone who spells it as "gaol" deserves to be sent there themselves for their crime against written language)
I feel they do need to start providing dates so gamers can start getting excited for this thing, even if its just "our launch direct will be on xx"
This whole spelling debate is redundant. The grammar standards of the world are so poor these days that spelling colour as color is irrelevant, every1 noes wot it means
Thanks NintendoLife for actually doing journalist work before reporting anything that pop up on the internet.
@Seanmyster6 Gaol is the original spelling, but was replaced with jail well over a century ago... it is still a valid spelling, but is typically only used for historic accuracy.
@Seanmyster6 It's the way I say it. Mum there is no o sound in it. haha
@abbyhitter I prefer the YYYY-MM-DD. The beauty is that it is easily sortable. Second best is DD-MM-YYYY, then USA's MM-DD-YYYY last. I have to read it in increasing or decreasing order, not a silly mix of no order.
@ZeldaFan5991 You spell it how you say it. So do we. Not really a big deal. Both are correct for their region.
Why don't people just play their games on their Wii U or 3DS and wait. The Wii U is not even 5 years old yet and people have been wanting a new nintendo system since 2015 when nintendo said something about it...why not enjoy the current one and patiently wait? To me, I wouldn't be wanting to spend more money for another console at the moment, especially with also wanting the PS VR (which I'm going to wait on until I see what the NX is) and still getting games for Wii, Wii U, 3DS, PS3 and 360...as well as still getting some of the older games for the older consoles. There's enough to do at the moment.
There's too much junk on the internet too, for people just wanting to get attention. Nobody, except for nintendo themselves, no anything about the NX, and I don't blame nintendo for not revealing it yet...especially if they're releasing it in March. Why give Sony and Microsoft and other companies the time to make one game or one thing for their systems before nintendo releases them. The analog was copied, their systems were copied, their games were copied...the rumble pack and their motion controllers, so why reveal it too early in hopes of ruining it.
Also, when nintendo reveals it, you know that there will be people complaining about it (the same ones that can't wait for it) and the same 'nintendo is doomed' will be coming on again, which will get some people that believe this nonsense away from the console. Nintendo doesn't need a bunch of junk on the e-shop, they need the retail games to show that the system is alive, which is what is hurting the Wii U at the moment (sure, Wii U has a ton of e-shop games, but with the lack of retail items being shown for the console, no one has the interest in it).
Captain N's log, 12th of October, 2016 C.E., 50 B.OR.
Two days until the anniversary of or fateful battle at Hastings. The English yolk have gained a foothold of their abominable... "ou" spelling of varios words... Color. That's better, had to work that thoght out of my system.
Anyways, it is almost 50 years until an entire millenium has passed since we began this saga of war and strife. I have been traveling throgh time, hoping to change or fate from the catastrophe which is to come. I pray that it may be resolved soon.
Many bloody wars have been foght, but they will not yield. It has now culminated in a debate of epic proportions in this... "N Life" node... It appears to be a production of those accursed English, however, we have yet discovered potential allies in even the bleakest of times. This anomaly of debating the order of dates is quite an interesting tactical distraction from the true battle, as well.
I will report on the results henceforth, a day from the morrow. May yo colors of amor florish throghout yor days.
Captain Normal O. Normandy, signing ot.
@MadAdam81 Apparently you're not familiar with the Dutch language. We count "eenentwintig, tweeëntwintig, drieëntwintig", which translates to oneandtwenty, twoandtwenty, threeandtwenty.
So we swap the the tens and ones, at least in spoken language
Time to open the dam mouths and talk eh Nintendo? still plan to sell the damn thing? present it to us then!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Whoa, this website was a lot more British than I thought it was.
@RetroRider Keyword: was
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Oh God, not ANOTHER system they have ruined??? Will it ever end?
TO BE CONTINUED...........
@Snader I applaud your highly detailed pedanticism.
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