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For a limited time, get a free $20 Target gift card with your purchase of a select Nintendo Switch Lite system. Learn more Offer valid 3/28/21 - 4/3/21 at Target, while supplies last. Nintendo Life has you covered for all the latest Nintendo Switch, 3DS and Wii U news along with in-depth reviews, features, videos and interviews. We also cover Nintendo eShop, Virtual Console. Nintendo's upcoming NX will be a portable, handheld console with detachable controllers, a number of sources have confirmed to Eurogamer. On the move, NX will function as a high-powered handheld.

When designing new gaming consoles, companies rarely carry the initial design blueprints all the way through the development process. Often times console designs must be changed several times before the desired look and function is achieved. Microsoft dismantled a PS2 to help develop the first Xbox, drawing inspiration from its hardware design to improve upon an early Xbox model that was essentially a massive silver X. Nintendo went through design changes during its development of the Nintendo Switch, and some images of an early Switch prototype have appeared online.

The Nintendo Switch released back in 2017 with the aim to be a unique console that could be used for portable gaming as well as home entertainment on a bigger screen. Its initial launch was met with skepticism from some journalists and game developers due to its perceived high price point and a shortlist of console exclusives available at launch. Tomb of the conqueror ffxv.

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Pokemon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara 'didn't see' the Switch selling until The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild helped kickstart the console's success. Today the Switch has sold around 80 million units with several successful console exclusives, but the images of its prototype stage is a nostalgic look back at where it all began.

During its inception and development process, the Nintendo Switch went by the code name 'NX.' In the images of the prototype from 2016, 'Firmware for NX' can be clearly seen on the console screen that identifies it as an early Switch. Twitter user Forest of Illusion shared these images and claims that this version of the Nintendo Switch is the 'earliest Switch to be found so far.'

The data (factory test files) cannot be released since it's too recent, but all of the files have been backed up safely and the system has been sent to someone for safe keeping. Some other things of note are the different screws, volume buttons, and it being referred to as DPRD. pic.twitter.com/SqdB75npbu

— Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion) February 15, 2021

At this stage of development, the Switch looks more like a tablet, similar to the look of an iPad or a Microsoft RT. The model in the pictures doesn't have Joy-Cons yet either, recognizable pieces of a Switch that are key to its modern design but have suffered from drift issues for years. Forest of Illusion also notes that the volume buttons are different from the Nintendo Switch of today, with the prototype model sporting up and down arrows instead of plus and minus signs. This version of the Switch was also mysteriously referred to as 'DPRD', but what those letters stand for is anyone's guess.

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It is unlikely that the factory test files for this early Switch will be released anytime soon, but it's good to know that this development unit is being kept safe for future discoveries. This prototype is a nice reminder of the Switch's past, as Nintendo remains focused on the future of their successful console. An upgraded version of the Switch, tentatively the Nintendo Switch Pro or Super Switch, is rumored to be in the works though Nintendo says there will be no new Switch model anytime soon.

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Nintendo's upcoming NX will be a portable, handheld console with detachable controllers, a number of sources have confirmed to Eurogamer.

On the move, NX will function as a high-powered handheld console with its own display. So far so normal - but here's the twist: we've heard the screen is bookended by two controller sections on either side, which can be attached or detached as required.

Then, when you get home, the system can connect to your TV for gaming on the big screen.

A base unit, or dock station, is used to connect the brain of the NX - within the controller - to display on your TV.

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For more on the console's power, Digital Foundry has a deep-dive look at the chip Nintendo has chosen as the centrepiece of NX, according to numerous well-placed sources: Nvidia's powerful Tegra mobile processor.

NX will use game cartridges as its choice of physical media, multiple sources have also told us.

Considering NX's basis as a handheld first and foremost, the choice may not come as too much of a surprise - although we have heard the suggestion Nintendo recommends a 32GB cartridge, which is small when considering the size of many modern games.

Naturally, we expect digital game downloads will also be available. We were told Nintendo considered but then decided against making a system which supported digital downloads only.

It's not the first time cartridge-based media has been mooted for NX. Back in May, eagle-eyed fans spotted The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's trademark included cartridge-based games. This was a change from Nintendo's usual wording for home console trademarks, which only refer to digital downloads and discs.

Due to the radical change in hardware design and internal technology, we've been told by one source that there are no plans for backwards compatibility.

Another source said the system would run on a new operating system from Nintendo. It won't, contrary to some earlier rumours, simply run on Android.

Inside the NX, as stated above, the system will harness Nvidia's powerful mobile processor Tegra. Graphical comparisons with current consoles are difficult due to the vastly different nature of the device - but once again we've heard Nintendo is not chasing graphical parity. Quite the opposite, it is sacrificing power to ensure it can squeeze all of this technology into a handheld, something which also tallies with earlier reports.

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Finally, we've heard from one source that NX planning has recently moved up a gear within Nintendo ahead of the console's unveiling, which is currently slated for September.

After the confused PR fiasco of the Wii U launch, the company is already settling on a simple marketing message for NX - of being able to take your games with you on the go.

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Nintendo always designs its hardware to show off specific game concepts - and it remains to be seen how the system will showcase the next Mario, or even how the NX version of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - the only first-party game confirmed so-far - may differ when played on the device.

Previously, however, we've heard reports of various Wii U games reappearing as updated NX ports - Splatoon and Smash Bros. have both been mooted. And then there's Pikmin 4, which Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed to Eurogamer just over a year ago.

Otherwise, several third parties have announced their plans for the system, which you can read about - as well as proposed release plans - in our piece that rounds up everything we know about the NX so far.

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'Nintendo has not made any new official announcements regarding NX which is due to launch in March 2017,' a Nintendo spokesperson told Eurogamer when contacted about this story. 'As such [we're] unable to comment on the various rumours and speculations circulating.' Convert powerpoint 2011 to mp4 on mac for free.