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Nintendo worried about NX stealing

I didn’t get to actually watch Nintendo’s puppet-filled press conference at E3 this year, but it was rather entertaining watching the complete meltdown over social media while I sat in traffic on the way to LACC. To say that people weren’t happy would be an understatement – with little to no new, exciting titles for the Wii U managing to bubble to the surface. Nintendo seems to be doubling down on their mysterious NX console – a piece of hardware they really don’t want competitors to steal.

That’s part of the reason Nintendo actually hasn’t revealed anything about their new consoles, according to President Satoru Iwata. Responding to investor worries over the absence of NX at E3, Iwata implied that the NX will be a highly innovative piece of technology – so much so that they’re worried competitors might steal any early features that could’ve been announced by now.

“We can’t talk about the NX. If we do, competitors may take our ideas and customers won’t be surprised.”

Despite the clear drive Nintendo has behind the NX, Iwata wanted to also assure Wii U owners that they weren’t being left out in the cold. A difficult statement to take at face value, considering the blatant disregard for the aging console during E3 – coupled with the continued, heart-breaking silence over the new Legend of Zelda title (which I’m now almost convinced will arrive as an NX launch title).

“We will continue making 3DS and Wii software while preparing for the NX. We are prioritizing satisfying customers who purchased the Wii U.”

Whether we believe it or not, it’s clear that we aren’t getting a peep out of Nintendo regarding their future hardware plans until 2016. There’s still a lot of time between now and then for them to try win back some Wii U customer confidence, but right now their fickle statements about the console seem to be the final writings on the wall.

Which makes this recent Zelda-loving Wii U owner rather sad. As I’m sure it does thousands of others.

Last Updated: June 26, 2015

46 Comments

  1. Ayah, uuuh. Wii, uh. U?

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  2. Pariah

    June 26, 2015 at 14:42

    Ayah, uuuh. Wii, uh. U?

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  3. oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

    June 26, 2015 at 14:46

    Its time for the new generation of Nintendo fans to get burnt like the GameCube owners. Cycle of strife.

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  4. VampyreSquirrel

    June 26, 2015 at 14:48

    “We are prioritizing satisfying customers who purchased the Wii U.” What? All six of them?

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  5. RinceThis

    June 26, 2015 at 14:51

    Nothing Xtreem. Nice name.

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    • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

      June 26, 2015 at 15:11

      Like the code name Dolphin, wait until the code name NX is changed to what ever it is their super kupa marketing team have spent the last year brain storming over. My pop corn is ready.

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      • RinceThis

        June 26, 2015 at 15:13

        Oh come now. We all know they’ll change the name to WiiU2

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        • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

          June 26, 2015 at 15:14

          LOL U know it. Just to confuse the fuck out of the soccer moms even more.

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  6. Hammersteyn

    June 26, 2015 at 14:52

    What ideas? 3D was a bust. Everyone is doing either VR or AR. TVs are curved. They’ve already done motion controls. Kinect was shit half the time….. Maybe they are going mobile like Konami

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    • Pariah

      June 26, 2015 at 14:55

      Maybe the “X” stands for xylophone, and you control your characters by playing different notes on a xylophone?

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      • Hammersteyn

        June 26, 2015 at 14:58

        And the N stands for Nintendo? Nintendo Xylophone!

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        • Pariah

          June 26, 2015 at 14:59

          Music to my ears.

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          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 15:00

            XD

      • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

        June 26, 2015 at 15:13

        TAKE MY MONEY

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  7. oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

    June 26, 2015 at 14:52

    I waited 3 looooong years back in 2003 only to see the GameCube version get a port release on the new up and coming fad called the Wii before the limited stock for the GameCube was released. They wanted to pressure us into buying a Wii.

    Watch the same shit happen with the Wii-U. The new zelda game will be ported to the NX first. Just watch.

    P.S. The Gears of War advert came on TV for the new XBOX and that as they say is that.

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    • RinceThis

      June 26, 2015 at 14:54

      They actually don’t seem to know what they are doing… I mean, what is he doing with the bananas?!

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      • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

        June 26, 2015 at 14:55

        Holding his demographic.

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      • Kensei Seraph - Terran Ghost

        June 26, 2015 at 15:00

        It’s a euphemism.

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      • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

        June 26, 2015 at 15:05

        I found the E3 video very cute 🙂 It reminded me of how stupid I was spending all that money on the GameCube instead of the PS2 and that I was the stupid Muppet who made them so rich that they decided to take a risk and ignore the hardcore for the soccer moms who are all fainting at the knees over this new touch screen device called an iiiiiiiiiiiPhone. Wiiiiiiiiiii remember how the internet exploded when they revealed the name?

        Now its the Wii-U owners who have graduated to Muppet status 🙂

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        • RinceThis

          June 26, 2015 at 15:11

          Oh bless them, they’ve grown!

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          • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

            June 26, 2015 at 15:15

            The best thing is, the people who know what Jim Henson studios is are in their 40s.

          • RinceThis

            June 26, 2015 at 15:16

            Yeah. But the bad thing is that anyone who wants to play a Nintendo product are generally in their teens HUE HUE HUE

          • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

            June 26, 2015 at 15:17

            The taste of using Jim Henson Studios goes over their heads and they just think its fucking Sesame Street. Already lost the teen demographic to the kids.

          • RinceThis

            June 26, 2015 at 15:19

            That’s their biggest problem. They have no clue who they are pitching to. Do they still do the same tried-and-tested approach, or actually move with the times? I don’t see them doing anything different…

          • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

            June 26, 2015 at 15:21

            and then they ban hammer all Youtube content.

          • RinceThis

            June 26, 2015 at 15:22

            Yeah, because FREE fucking advertising isn’t a good thing. Angry Joe is constantly getting fucked by them.

          • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

            June 26, 2015 at 15:22

            I am surprised Lazygamer are even allowed to post Nintendo news.

  8. Kensei Seraph - Terran Ghost

    June 26, 2015 at 14:57

    They shouldn’t worry about it, it’s going to happen regardless.

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  9. RinceThis

    June 26, 2015 at 15:00

    Next Xcuse? No Xales?

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  10. Hammersteyn

    June 26, 2015 at 15:01

    NINTENDO XTREME!

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    • oVg "I hate Portals" - Geralt

      June 26, 2015 at 15:19

      Konami spent all the production costs for Silent Hill on Coke.

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      • RinceThis

        June 26, 2015 at 15:21

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

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      • Hammersteyn

        June 26, 2015 at 16:31

        ROFL! Classic!

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  11. Pariah

    June 26, 2015 at 15:04

    NINTENDO XTINCT!

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  12. Action Jackson

    June 26, 2015 at 19:02

    X stands for”cross” as in SMT X Fire Emblem. It’s the handheld homeconsole hybrid.

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  13. www.theminecraftreview.com

    June 26, 2015 at 23:44

    Kinda see why there worried. If its a game changer, then .. obviously they want to release first. and if there not close to release… they shouldnt show it.

    Look at the occulus rift. They reveled there tech and ideas, cause frankly, they needed the help. and needed to get the attnetion. But now?.. theres what?.. 6-8 VR headsets indevlopment. The Occulus is just the FORE RUNNER.
    now, playstaion as there own for there system and microsoft no doubt will devlop there own for there systems.
    so whats left ofr occulus? since the gaming industry is going to be making there own they wont by the occulus.
    Its still got a lot of potential. But… its lost a lot of its footing cause of the bigger industires racing to make there own now.

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    June 27, 2015 at 04:25

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  15. Ogreatgames.com

    June 28, 2015 at 00:41

    To be real.. I don’t believe Nintendo is doing this protect their ideas. I believe it is to build hype for the Nintendo NX.

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