Wed, Jan 06, 2010 | 09:03 GMT
Iwata: Next Nintendo handheld to have “ability to read movements”
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has mentioned first details of a possible new handheld from Nintendo: one that may not be a new DS SKU.
Speaking in an interview with The Asashi Shimbun (via Kotaku), Iwata only said this much on a new device:
“[It will have] highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing.”
Bar the multiple DS SKUs released so far, this is the first time Nintendo has talked about a new-new handheld in any form.
E3? Brace yourself.
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Posted in: DS, DSi, DSiLL/XL, Hot, Nintendo
Tags: New Nintendo handheld, Satoru Iwata
5 comments
#1
Blerk
06/01/10, 9:16 am
Been watching that there iPhone have you, Ninty?
#2
Dannybuoy
06/01/10, 10:06 am
Project Nintal
#3
rainer
06/01/10, 10:07 am
The highly detailed graphics comment is interesting, it would be surprising if Nintendo made a handled solely for hardcore gamers. It’s probably an Arm CPU and PowerVR SGX GPU same as high end smartphones.
Actually I dont think Nintendo is in any danger yet from smartphones at least not until they become commodity items and sell for nothing so that will take a long time to happen but it is heading that way.
#4
Roybott
06/01/10, 10:10 am
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the new Nintendo handheld was capable of better graphics then the Wii…
#5
Blerk
06/01/10, 10:21 am
The chances of Nintendo ever making a machine ‘solely for hardcore gamers’ ever again are practically zero. We’ll be lucky if they support us by accident, never mind by design.