A lot of places on the web have been jumping at the speculation bandwagon for Nintendo's newest console plan, and that usually follows with a lot of "sources" speaking out to tell us all about it. If you recall, the NX controller was apparently "leaked" and was revealed to the public, based on the design schematic images posted previously. As we soon found out, it was proven completely false.
We now find ourselves running the rumor mill at high speeds with another idea. The NX production will be delayed in order to add VR to keep up with the current market trend. Not a bad rumor, makes sense, no? The thing that makes me skeptical is the source. DigiTimes was the original creator of the rumor article [http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160530PD201.html], upon looking at it again, it doesn't sound right. It's pretty vague on where the information came from, but that could very well be commonplace. What interests me is this...
This article was made to fact check DigiTime's previous rumor based articles [http://techland.time.com/2012/05/14/digitimes-apple-rumors/], and came up with a striking amount of false rumors and and incorrect speculations based on their "sources." And if you read every article they cited, there's a lot of these articles.
So what's the point I'm trying to make? Simply put, if Nintendo wanted to make a system that was affordable for its demographic, as well as have a have a mobile component... I can't imagine that it would ever support VR. VR goes against both design decisions Nintendo has firmly stated with the NX. Not to mention DigiTime's track record for these sorts of things looks flimsy at best. We don't know what the NX will hold for now, but for the time being, it might be best to look at the source closely and decide for ourselves if it should be trusted.
I didn't buy into it in the first place, but that track record is pretty damning. I'm not sure what to think, so we should wait until Nintendo reveals some info later this year
We now find ourselves running the rumor mill at high speeds with another idea. The NX production will be delayed in order to add VR to keep up with the current market trend. Not a bad rumor, makes sense, no? The thing that makes me skeptical is the source. DigiTimes was the original creator of the rumor article [http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160530PD201.html], upon looking at it again, it doesn't sound right. It's pretty vague on where the information came from, but that could very well be commonplace. What interests me is this...
This article was made to fact check DigiTime's previous rumor based articles [http://techland.time.com/2012/05/14/digitimes-apple-rumors/], and came up with a striking amount of false rumors and and incorrect speculations based on their "sources." And if you read every article they cited, there's a lot of these articles.
So what's the point I'm trying to make? Simply put, if Nintendo wanted to make a system that was affordable for its demographic, as well as have a have a mobile component... I can't imagine that it would ever support VR. VR goes against both design decisions Nintendo has firmly stated with the NX. Not to mention DigiTime's track record for these sorts of things looks flimsy at best. We don't know what the NX will hold for now, but for the time being, it might be best to look at the source closely and decide for ourselves if it should be trusted.
I didn't buy into it in the first place, but that track record is pretty damning. I'm not sure what to think, so we should wait until Nintendo reveals some info later this year
