Nintendo will release a new gaming console in 2016

The rumors that circulate around the new Nintendo home game console are beginning to take shape. The previous prefix of the Japanese company Wii U, which went on sale in late 2012, faced a number of problems that did not allow it to win a large chunk of the market. As a result, today the console market is unquestionably led by Sony with its PlayStation 4, and immediately behind it in the standings is the company of Microsoft with its Xbox One. According to rumors, Nintendo decided to artificially shorten the life cycle of the Wii U and release an entirely new platform.

For three years of the existence of the Nintendo Wii U, about 11 million set-top boxes were sold. For comparison, Microsoft took only two years to sell 15.6 million consoles, and PlayStation 4 for the same time sold 30.2 million boxes. The management of Nintendo understands that the situation needs to be rectified urgently, as the growth of the user base has significantly decreased under pressure from competitors and with the complete lack of support from large game publishers who simply do not want to release their games to a console that is not selling well.

However, we can not say that the Wii U is a bad platform. Not at all. This prefix is ​​a real gift for the whole family. There are a lot of bright varied platformers for children, adventures, RPGs and horror movies for adults, sports games to keep themselves in great physical shape, and much, much more. But iron Wii U can hardly be called comparable with the stuffing of PS4 and Xbox One, which makes it difficult to release games such as the updated GTA V or The Witcher 3. The role was played by the slurred presentation of the console in 2011, when the world showed a controller with a built-in display, but really did not explain anything, because of what many thought that this is a kind of add-on to the Nintendo Wii.

Of course, three years is a very short life cycle for any console, but there's just no other way out for Nintendo, except to announce a new gaming platform. We must admit our mistakes and continue to move on. If you believe the information received from insiders by journalists of the portal Digitimes , the new console, known under the code name NX, will go on sale already in the second quarter of 2016. A production of consoles will be occupied by the Chinese company Foxconn. The console will use components from various manufacturers, among which, besides Foxconn Technology, there are also Macronix, Pixart Imaging, Coxon Precise Industrial, Nishoku Technology, Delta Technology, Lingsen Precision Industries and Jentech.

In 2016 alone, Nintendo plans to build and ship around 20 million of its new consoles around the world, which will be very difficult, given that the economic situation in the world leaves much to be desired, and the market is already saturated with various consoles and video games. Even the components suppliers for the future console prefer to mentally divide these figures by two, they think that NX shipments will not exceed 10-12 million boxes. Of course, all of these judgments are unofficial and journalists have not been able to obtain confirmation from representatives of Foxconn. But there is definitely some truth in them. For comparison: for the first year 13 million Xbox One and 18 million PS4 were shipped to stores.

As for the future console, many analysts agree that it will combine a stationary system unit, as well as a mobile device that at home will play the role of a controller, and outside it will allow you to play games remotely from the main system. A kind of hybrid stationary and pocket console. Considering that the prefix will start to be produced in Chinese factories already in the first quarter of 2016, we will soon know whether these rumors are true or not. Official information from Nintendo in the press has not yet been received.

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