14 DAY TRIAL // Nintendo might be affected by lower than expected sales of the Wii U home console, but information coming from inside the company suggests that it is already working on two new pieces of hardware, a handheld and a terminal powered by futuristic hardware.
Gamingrealm says that the specifications of the prototypes include:
Fusion DS ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 GPU: Custom Adreno 420-based AMD GPU 3 GB LPDDR3 of memory - 2 GB Games, 1 GB OS 2 130 mm DVGA (960 x 640) Capacitive Touchscreen Slide Out Design with Custom Swivel Tilt Hinge Upper Screen made of Gorilla Glass, Comes with Magnetic Cover Low End Vibration for Gameplay and App Alerts 2 Motorized Circle Pads for Haptic Feedback Thumbprint Security Scanner with Pulse Sensing Feedback 2 1mp Stereoptic Cameras Multi-Array Microphone 3 Axis Tuning Fork Gyroscope, 3 Axis Accelerometer, Magnetometer NFC Reader 3G Chip with GPS Location Bluetooth v4.0 BLE Command Node used to Interface with Bluetooth Devices such as Cell Phones, Tablets 16 Gigabytes of Internal Flash Storage with space for upgrade 3300 mAh Li-Ion battery
The Fusion terminal sounds even more impressive:
Custom Radeon HD RX 200 GPU CODENAME LADY with 2816 shaders @ 960 MHz, 4.60 TFLOP/s, Fillrates: 60.6 Gpixel/s, 170 Gtexel/s IBM 64-Bit Custom POWER 8-Based IBM 8-Core Processor CODENAME JUMPMAN with 2.2 GHz, Shared 6 MB L4 cache IBM PowerPC 750-based 1.24 GHz Tri-Core Co-Processor CODENAME HAMMER 4 GB of DDR4 SDRAM CODENAME KONG, 2 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MHz on die CODENAMED BARREL 802.11 b/g/n Wireless Bluetooth v4.0 BLE 2 USB 3.0 1 Coaxial Cable Input 1 CableCARD Slot 4 Custom Stream-Interface Nodes up to 4 Wii U GamePads or 4 DSc Versions with Disk Drive play Wii U Optical Disk (4 Layers Maximum), FUSION Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) and Nintendo 3DS Card Slot. 1 HDMI 2.0 1080p/4K Port Dolby TrueHD 5.1 or 7.1 Surround Sound Inductive Charging Surface for up to 4 FUSION DS or IC-Wii Remote Plus Controllers Two versions: Disk Slot Version with 60 GB of Internal Flash storage and Diskless Version with 300 GB of Internal Flash storage. The information cannot be verified in any way and there’s no sign that it comes from a trusted source rather than simply someone who is willing to make up facts.
Some of the names used for the Fusion terminal also seem to indicate that this is an elaborate hoax.
At the same time, Nintendo clearly needs to be working on something big for the near future as long as it wants to return to the days when it was making a solid profit.
The Wii U cannot carry the company forward, especially after it announced that it was cutting projected Wii U sales from 9 to 2.8 million.
It will be interesting to see whether Nintendo has plans to offer an official comment on the leak or not.