For many people, Nintendo’s Wii U is just not next-gen enough. Some (wrongly) believe it can’t even compare to the Ps3 and Xbox 360. If Nintendo wants to stay in the game, they need a system that can compete with the PS4 and Xbox One. They’re most likely busy with Research and Development on new systems right now. These are probably not the specs for those systems.
According to Nintendo News, these are the specs you’ll find in the follow-up to the 3DS and the Wii U. I don;t believe them for a second; they’re far too specific and read more like some Nintendo’’ fan’s wishlist. they’re still certainly worth talking about though. Apparently the “new consoles” will be backwards compatible with their forbears; so the Fusion DS will play 3DS Games, and the Terminal, which the Fusion links with, will ply Wii U games.
Take this all with a particularly large grain of salt, but as I said this is all too specific for something that’s probably only in basic R&D. The 3DS is only 3 years old, and the Wii U is less than two. This would alienate just about every remaining Nintendo fan in the world, cost Nintendo way too much money and just wouldn’t make sense right now. The 3DS is still incredibly successful, with time to get better still, and the Wii U has picked up a little steam over the holidays. Probably not enough steam for the console to be truly successful, but I just don’t see Nintendo abandoning the Wii U and the 3Ds for some time yet.
Fusion DS
- CPU: ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 GPU: Custom Adreno 420-based AMD GPU
- COM MEMORY: 3 GB LPDDR3 (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
- A, B, X, Y, D-Pad, L, R, 1, 2 Buttons
- 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 (Possible Future Unit With 32 Gigabytes)
- Nintendo 3DS Cart Slot
- SDHC “Holographic Enhanced” Card Slot up to 128 Gigabyte Limit
- Mini USB I/O
- 3300 mAh Li-Ion battery
Fusion Terminal
- GPGPU: Custom Radeon HD RX 200 GPU CODENAME LADY (2816 shaders @ 960 MHz, 4.60 TFLOP/s, Fillrates: 60.6 Gpixel/s, 170 Gtexel/s)
- CPU: IBM 64-Bit Custom POWER 8-Based IBM 8-Core Processor CODENAME JUMPMAN (2.2 GHz, Shared 6 MB L4 cache)
- Co-CPU: IBM PowerPC 750-based 1.24 GHz Tri-Core Co-Processor CODENAME HAMMER
- MEMORY: 4 Gigabytes of Unified DDR4 SDRAM CODENAMED KONG, 2 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MHz (12.8 GB/s) 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
- 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 Gigs of Internal Flash Storage and Diskless Version with 300 Gigs of Internal Flash Storage
Last Updated: January 22, 2014
TiMsTeR1033
January 22, 2014 at 12:05
If this were true, I am not sure about specs but wouldn’t this mean it is still less powerful than Ps4 and Xbox one?
CypherGate
January 22, 2014 at 12:06
Why would you think that though?
TiMsTeR1033
January 22, 2014 at 12:24
Because most consoles Nintendo make are never most powerful.
CypherGate
January 22, 2014 at 16:27
The way i see it is that maybe they realize that they cant stick to the same formula they did with the Wii back in the day and they see the WiiU isnt doing too great. So they will released a proper next gen console while the WiiU will be like the Wii-HD so customers has choice. They might even market the WiiU as the Wii-HD or something like that.
veggiesaurus ZA
January 22, 2014 at 13:45
Ps4: 1.8 tflops; XbOne: 1.2 tflops; this console: 4.6 tflops… I think we have a winner (on the GPU side)
Brian Murphy
January 22, 2014 at 15:53
The cost of this thing, based on what we’re seeing would probably put the PS3 to shame lol. If this IS true, then I can’t imagine it’s close to release…like, maybe 4-5 years from now.
Umar Break Dancing Cyborg
January 22, 2014 at 12:07
Eff Ay Kay Ee
Umar Break Dancing Cyborg
January 22, 2014 at 12:08
We should just wait till the end of the month to hear what they planning
Dean
January 22, 2014 at 12:11
Though DS specs look like someone just pulled the latest Android Phone and copy pasted.
DrKiller
January 22, 2014 at 12:12
HDMI 2.0? Yeah right…
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 22, 2014 at 12:27
Maybe the WiiU would get better if it picked up Steam 😉
TiMsTeR1033
January 22, 2014 at 12:29
its needs Pokemon
Kromas
January 22, 2014 at 12:41
A system with both Half Life and Pokemon??!! I just peed my pants a little.
Unavengedavo
January 22, 2014 at 13:16
http://www.moddb.com/mods/pokemon-online
Too bad it never saw the light of day 😛
Craig "Crios" Boonzaier
January 22, 2014 at 13:21
A Pokemon MMO would steal a lot of my time and money.
Admiral Chief in Vegas
January 22, 2014 at 12:43
Word
RinceThis2014
January 22, 2014 at 12:38
Lulz. Riiiiight. If you just look at the crying on twitter these days you can see some desperate fan has done a 2+2= crazy and come up with this.
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 22, 2014 at 12:40
Have you had any unexplained blackouts lately? *run*
RinceThis2014
January 22, 2014 at 12:41
No, do you want some? Tehehehe
Admiral Chief in Vegas
January 22, 2014 at 12:39
Flash? 300GB? Nice
El Capitan del Blade
January 22, 2014 at 12:58
lost it at “Codename JUMPMAN” the lulz, thanks Lagz
Wyzak
January 22, 2014 at 13:11
Some wrongly believe that Nintendo games is all about graphics and technical specs.
CypherGate
January 22, 2014 at 16:28
There games are more concentrated on Playability and lastability.
Wyzak
January 22, 2014 at 16:47
*Their 😀
Gareth L (That Guy)
January 22, 2014 at 13:21
If this were a boxing or wrestling match, they should be tapping out about now:
“… eight, NINe, TEN, DOne!”
Brian Murphy
January 22, 2014 at 14:03
This just seems like way way way too much of a gamble, and I really hope this is either in the very very very early stages, or just a rumor. Because, as Geoff said, it could alienate allot of people, not to mention cost them a fortune in R/D, and the last thing I want to see is Nintendo exit the hardware market or god forbid, the entire games market due to one blunder (albeit a big one), with the Wii-U.
Though, if there’s any company who can figure things out, it’s probably Nintendo. They’ve been doing this for a very long time.
CypherGate
January 22, 2014 at 16:31
The sad thing is that if they should leave the hardware market then it would kind of shake the gaming industry because from that point onwards everyone WILL hound for Nintendos games. Who will bring out the big bucks to invest in Exclusivity to play Nintendo games on a different console. That would boost sales of the next gen that was able to buy the exclusivity.
Brian Murphy
January 22, 2014 at 16:37
I think many people would love to see Nintendo go multi-platform, but it’d be a shame just because from a nostalgia standpoint, I think most of us remember the NES/SNES/N64 from their childhood and would miss the Nintendo ‘touch’ on hardware.
Aussious
January 23, 2014 at 07:43
This gen has really gotten off to a slow start…