Nintendo may be looking to expand its offerings beyond video games in the future, as some recent findings seem to suggest the Japanese company is working on a multimedia streaming service.
Earlier this month, Nash Weedle shared on X/Twitter a recently filed patent for selecting and ordering streaming content, defining the systems used to indicate the available content, what has been watched, and so on.
🔥Leak Express:
Nintendo, con Miyamoto a la cabeza, patenta un método para seleccionar y ordenar contenido audiovisual en streaming.A destacar:
-Asignar el icono que tú quieras que represente el contenido.
-Sistema de checks para indicar lo que se ha visto completo o a medias pic.twitter.com/UJ0fRwtsG4— Nash Weedle “El Analista de Leaks” (@NWeedle) January 12, 2024
By itself, this patent would not mean much, but a job ad for a Software Engineer with expertise in Multimedia Technologies from Nintendo of America, which was spotted by Necro Felipe on X/Twitter, indicates how the company could be actively working on such a streaming service, as this software engineer would be working to design and develop software to support multimedia use cases as well as features of being successfully deployed in massively used gaming consoles.
Vaga bem interessante para Engenheiro de Software - Tecnologias Multimídia publicada pela Nintendo of America
A descrição da vaga dá a entender que a companhia quer um serviço próprio de multimídia que funcione nos seus consoles
Me parece "Nintendoflix" pic.twitter.com/ZwXp99xdme
— 'Necro' Felipe #UnivNintendo (@necrolipe) January 24, 2024
With the Nintendo Switch 2 launching in the near future, the Japanese company may be gearing up to offer more than just gaming on its next system. The fact that a "massively used" gaming console is mentioned in the job ad also seems to suggest this streaming service could be available on the current Switch as well.
Very little is known about the Nintendo Switch 2 as of now. According to reports, the console will be revealed in the next couple of months and will officially launch late this year. The new system will also support NVIDIA DLSS and offer better ray tracing than the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X thanks to NVIDIA's Ray Reconstruction tech.
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