Nintendo CEO: Nintendo NX Not The “Successor To The Wii U Nor To The 3DS” But Expected To Have A “Larger impact than the Wii U”

The Nintendo NX is not the "successor to the Wii U nor to the 3DS", co-ordinate to Nintendo's CEO, Tatsumi Kimishima.

In a recent interview with Japanese newspaper, The Asahi Shimbun, Nintendo's Kimishima talked about the company's plan to enter the motion-picture show business. In the same interview the Nintendo president also mentioned the NX. Kimishima believes that the Nintendo NX won't be a pure replacement for the Wii U, but is expected to take a larger bear on than the Wii U due to a "new style of playing games" (thank you to Neogaf user GSR for the translation to English).

"The NX is neither the successor to the Wii U nor to the 3DS", said Kimishima. "It's a new fashion of playing games, which I think will accept a larger impact than the Wii U, but I don't experience it'due south a pure replacement for the Wii U."

Nintendo NX To Release In March 2022

A few weeks ago, Nintendo released their financial results for their fiscal year, which confirmed that the NX will exist released in March 2022. According to Nintendo's forecast, the NX is based a on a "brand-new concept", reinforcing Kimishima's claim.

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The Nintendo NX remains shrouded in mystery as Nintendo hasn't officially detailed the upcoming console. Contempo rumors debunked earlier claims that the console would be using an x86 architecture alongside AMD Polaris fries. In fact, the NX is now said to be using a NVIDIA GPU.