Massively Fake Nintendo Console Rumor Going Around

[DZComposer]

A bit of a PSA, there is a rumer that started making the rounds yesterday about a family of Nintendo systems called "Fusion."

It consists of a handheld and a home console and provided specs as follows:

FUSION DS (Handheld)

CPU: ARMv8-A Cortex-A53 GPU: Custom Adreno 420-based AMD GPU

COM MEMORY: 3 GB LPDDR3 (2 GB Games, 1 GB OS)

>2 130 mm DVGA (960 x 640) Capacitive Touchscreen

>Slide Out Design with Custom Swivel Tilt Hinge

>Upper Screen made of Gorilla Glass, Comes with Magnetic Cover

>Low End Vibration for Gameplay and App Alerts

>2 Motorized Circle Pads for Haptic Feedback

>Thumbprint Security Scanner with Pulse Sensing Feedback

>2 1mp Stereoptic Cameras

>Multi-Array Microphone

>A, B, X, Y, D-Pad, L, R, 1, 2 Buttons

>3 Axis Tuning Fork Gyroscope, 3 Axis Accelerometer, Magnetometer

>NFC Reader

>3G Chip with GPS Location

>Bluetooth v4.0 BLE Command Node used to Interface with Bluetooth Devices such as Cell Phones, Tablets

>16 Gigabytes of Internal Flash Storage (Possible Future Unit With 32 Gigbytes)

>Nintendo 3DS Cart Slot

>SDHC “Holographic Enhanced” Card Slot up to 128 Gigabyte Limit

>Mini USB I/O

>3300 mAh Li-Ion battery

What is wrong with it:

- This thing would have 2 5" 4:3 touchscreens. That would make it bigger than a Wii U Gamepad.

- 3G Cellular Radio - Why? Not only is it an old and slow data standard, it requires a lot more licensing costs.

- Motorized circle pads - $$$

- "SDHC 'Holographic Enhanced' Card Slot up to 128 Gigabyte Limit" makes no sense to anyone who knows the slightest thing about SD cards. SDXC theoretically supports up to 2TB with 256GB cards already on the market.

- Gorilla Glass doesn't make sense for a Nintendo product

FUSION TERMINAL (Home Console)

GPGPU: Custom Radeon HD RX 200 GPU CODENAME LADY (2816 shaders @ 960 MHz, 4.60 TFLOP/s, Fillrates: 60.6 Gpixel/s, 170 Gtexel/s)

CPU: IBM 64-Bit Custom POWER 8-Based IBM 8-Core Processor CODENAME JUMPMAN (2.2 GHz, Shared 6 MB L4 cache)

Co-CPU: IBM PowerPC 750-based 1.24 GHz Tri-Core Co-Processor CODENAME HAMMER

MEMORY: 4 Gigabytes of Unified DDR4 SDRAM CODENAME KONG, 2 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MHz (12.8 GB/s) On Die CODENAMED BARREL

>802.11 b/g/n Wireless

>Bluetooth v4.0 BLE

>2 USB 3.0

>1 Coaxial Cable Input

>1 CableCARD Slot

>4 Custom Stream-Interface Nodes up to 4 Wii U GamePads or 4 DSc

>Versions with Disk Drive play Wii U Optical Disk (4 Layers Maximum), FUSION Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) and Nintendo 3DS Card Slot.

>1 HDMI 2.0 1080p/4K Port

>Dolby TrueHD 5.1 or 7.1 Surround Sound

>Inductive Charging Surface for up to 4 FUSION DS or IC-Wii Remote Plus Controllers

>Two versions: Disk Slot Version with 60 Gigs of Internal Flash Storage and Diskless Version with 300 Gigs of Internal Flash Storage.

What is wrong with it:

- GPU - This is AMD's top-of-the-line GPU series. While not unrealistic for a console 4-5 years out, it is uncharacteristic of Nintendo to do this.

CPU 1 - POWER8? Really? Only way this would make sense would be if Nintendo had some kind of contract with IBM limiting them to only picking IBM CPUs. Not that there is anything wrong with POWER8. It is IBM's next generation CPU. But to get a customized scaled-back version of this built would probably be much more costly than getting a customized Jaguar or Puma+ CPU from AMD that they don't have to radically alter and would use less energy and generate less heat. POWER8's a high-end server CPU, not an embedded device CPU.

- CPU 2 - Seems like something included solely for backwards-compatibility. PowerPC 750 @1.24 GHz. Sounds a lot like the current Wii U CPU. Now, Nintendo has done this before. The original DS had a GBA CPU in it. But, I have my doubts that Nintendo would make the console more expensive just for backwards compatibility. Especially if they use a beast of a CPU like these specs claim.

- Memory - DDR3 and DDR4 for both GPU and CPU? This spec proves that whoever made this list doesn't know what they are talking about. A real spec would use GDDR memory, probably GDDR5.

- USB - Fewer USB ports than the Wii U?

- Digital Cable Tuner - Coax in and CableCARD means the thing has a digital cable tuner. Another indicator of bullshit. Firstly, it makes people who get their TV from a source other than digital Cable unable to use a feature of the system. Secondly, CableCARD is only used in the US so it would have to have different Cable TV setups for different countries. Also, this is the age of Netflix and Hulu. This seems like a needless component that would increase the price of the console for no real benefit.

- Inductive Charger - So I have to hang my controllers off of it. It would be so ugly and require positioning not conforming with the design of people's TV setups.

- Storage - One SKU has an optical drive and a 60GB SSD. The other has just a 300GB SSD. 300GB SSDs currently cost more than a Wii U.

TL;DR - This rumor is bullshit and made by someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.

If you're going to create a fake specs hoax, at least pull specs out of your ass that are plausible.

If I were to perpetrate a Nintendo console hoax, this is how I would spec it:

CPU - Customized Dual Six-core AMD Puma+ modules @ 1.8GHz.

GPU - Customized Radeon HD 7970

Memory - 12GB GDDR5

NIC - 802.11 G/N Radio

Storage - 4-layer disc Optical Drive, 250GB HDD, External UBS 3.0

Video - HDMI up to UHDTV "4K", Composite RCA

Audio - HDMI up to 7.1 channels LPCM, Toslink LPCM

Expansion - 4x USB 3.0 ports

Input - standard controller, motion controller, Balance Board, USB Keyboard

Controller - Standard ABXY,+, -, L,R,ZL,ZR, motion sensitivity, Microphone, No screen, some gimmick that I would put time into thinking of if I were doing this for real

Motion Controller - Wiimote/Nunchuck combo without IR sensor

[Scourge]

Gotta love morons eh?

 

and oh crap! DZ, you came up with the specs for the next hoax!

[Dr. Orange]

I see the new hoax specs and I'm like "Let's spread a rumor guies." Because YOLO.

 

But yeah I've been hearing this going over the airways and I was doubting since the beginning question, "Why make another console so soon?"

[Sarita]

Yeah considering their stock just supposedly tanked due to WiiU sales, I don't see them coming out with another console soon.

[Scourge]

Console companies seem to always forget something:

 

People do not buy consoles simply for owning the console

 

People buy consoles for games.

 

If they put out killer apps that EVERYONE wants, they would sell shittons of consoles.

 

 

Hell, I bought a Wiiu for 2 reasons

1: Pikmin 3

2: possibility of a new Stairfax game.

[NovaPhoenyx]

Console companies seem to always forget something:

 

People do not buy consoles simply for owning the console

 

People buy consoles for games.

 

If they put out killer apps that EVERYONE wants, they would sell shittons of consoles.

 

 

Hell, I bought a Wiiu for 2 reasons

1: Pikmin 3

2: possibility of a new Stairfax game.

 

That is so true about why people purchase consoles, not for the console but for the games! I feel like the Wii U was released too soon, but that might just be my opinion. 

 

Perhaps the Wii U/Nintendo will have a better chance once brawl and other games come out.