We try to avoid posting rumours as much as possible on Vooks, it’s part of our news policy and has been for years. You all seem to love it. Now we’re reaching a critical stage with the Nintendo NX where rumours, speculation and leaks are at a fever pitch. So instead of ignoring it, we’re going to collect them and analyse them.
With the impending Nintendo Direct tomorrow morning Australian time we thought we’d post this weeks rumour’s early before Nintendo drops the good/bad news and you don’t care anymore. This week a classic game is said to be returning, one that has been in development hell for some time.
There’s also a bunch of other rumours all from the one source, they’re interesting… to say the very least. Let’s begin.
Website Destructoid is reporting that Ubisoft’s Beyond Good & Evil 2 which has been stuck in development hell for years is coming to the Nintendo NX, exclusively and Nintendo is funding the whole venture ala Bayonetta 2.
The game is said to be coming in 2017. The games working title is said to be Beyond Good and Evil: The Prejudices of Philosophers.
The Verdict
This rumour comes from Geno, the chap who has the big old list of NX rumours below as well, however this rumour wasn’t on that list. Destructoid are also throwing their weight behind the rumour as well.
So let’s put Geno aside for a second and take the rumour as it is. There’s no secret Michel Ancel loves Miyamoto and vice versa, Nintendo have worked with Ubisoft before but never in this capacity.
This one is a hard one to believe because it is Beyond Good and Evil 2, but you never know…
Rumour monger Geno has come up with the following list of NX rumours, apparently that’s good enough of a source. – via NeoGAF
It has a wireless HDMI dongle that attaches flush to the back of the device. A user can pull it out and insert it into any display with a normal sized HDMI output and the devices uses an evolved version of the Wii U’s streaming tech to display in HD to the TV screen.
– Allegedly the analog controls for movement has small motors in them for full haptic feedback. Meaning if you control a character and hit a wall, the sticks move away from the direction of that wall to simulate running head first into it. This can also be used for jerking when firing a gun, taking damage, moving over rough terrain, ect.
Advertisement– It can literally Bluetooth synch with everything, especially smart phone and tablets to the point where one feature is that it can answer phone calls and display text messages from your phone onto the screens itself so you don’t have to stop and answer your smart device.
– The closest in terms of “power” it gets to is the Xbox One, but an app idea is Wii U x50 and Playstation Vita x100. The key is that all the tech is exactly the same hardware layout as the PS4 and Xbox One which then combine it with the OS’s strong emulation functions and compiler means that any game that can run of a Playstation 4 or Xbox One can easily run on the NX with near-zero modification to the original source code, especially if it runs in Android OS or Unreal Engine 4. This is allegedly why Nintendo has given out the dev kits so late, as one 3rd Party dev put it “It’s the easiest device we’ve ever developed for. You just take your code, compile it and it works.”
– Look to Pokemon GO to get the idea of the type of social features that will be in NX that will take multiplayer, AR and the StreetPass concept to a whole new level.
– The real strengths of the device is its usability and ease of use. Developers have described to me more than once that it visually and functionally looks as if “Samsung and the Nintendo 2DS” had a baby, in that it looks friendly but unlike what most people visualize a Nintendo device to typically look. The operating system, named NintendOS alone is very powerful and has so many modern features of mobile operating systems today that Nintendo is trying to be very careful in showing it off for fear that it would be mistaken as running Android. It also has a very strong networking functions as it ties into multiple devices and services allowing a very competent and pervasive ecosystem designed to constantly involve the consumer’s lives.
The Verdict
Phew, that’s a lot of rumours – all from the one guy again – Geno. His track record for correct rumours is impressive however the amount of ones he got wrong we weren’t actually able to find. So either he’s never wrong or … hides it.
There’s no way to substantiate anything here, lot of it is pie in the sky stuff and other stuff sounds good.
Make up your own mind on this one, we have no idea.
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