Nintendo's director Satoru Iwata announced that the company is developing a new hardware platform called NX. The company has just acquired a new partnership with the Japanese company Dena. This is expected to release new video games based on Nintendo's franchises on mobile platforms.
No porting (conversion) of existing Wii U or 3DS games is expected, but new titles featuring popular characters and worldς, ειδικά δημιουργημένοι για να τρέχουν σε smartphones.
The partnership will apparently manufacture devices under a new commercial brand and a new hardware platform, which the two companies called NX. But aside from the name, neither company has revealed any other details about the project. They just announced that we will know more next year.
The new platform was reported unofficially, with a headline statement Nintendo.
"Nintendo, along with Dena, will jointly develop a new subscription service, which will include the existing Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and a new NX concept for smart devices and computers," Iwata said. the Eurogamer.
All we know so far about the NX is that it is going to be a special game system, which sounds like the company's previous home or laptop consoles.
In addition, Iwata said the NX will be at the forefront of the pay-as-you-go service announced recently, following the Dena agreement, and is meant to reach a wide range of devices, not just the Wii U and 3DS platforms.
The company's move into mobile gaming is completely understandable and perhaps a bit overdue. But the idea together with the know-how of the company is expected to bring amazing results Results for gaming fans. Wait until 2016.