What’s this new thriller Nintendo system?

Nintendo has submitted a mysterious new wi-fi system to the Federal Communications Fee (FCC) this weekend, and it isn’t the Swap 2 console we’re anticipating to be revealed earlier than subsequent April. The CLO-001 mannequin quantity doesn’t reveal what it truly is, but it surely seems to be a completely new product line given the “001” codes used on units like the unique Swap (HAC-001) and DS (NTR-001) consoles.

It’s tagged solely as a “wi-fi system,” not a “wi-fi recreation console” or any type of controller like a Pleasure-Con. A primary diagram throughout the paperwork exhibits an overview of the place the FCC label will probably be “displayed in a melancholy space on the underside” of one thing with a squarish footprint and rounded-off corners.

The paperwork additionally present that there’s no body-worn accent concerned with the testing and that it doesn’t have a battery and may solely function plugged in — it was linked to the identical USB-C charger that Nintendo ships with its Swap consoles in checks, however that solely reveals it may be powered by USB-C.

The CLO-001 is surprisingly mild on wi-fi know-how — there’s no 5GHz or 6GHz Wi-Fi radio and no Bluetooth, but it surely does sport a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio and a 24GHz mmWave sensor. 

The 24GHz mmWave sensor is essentially the most fascinating element we’ve got. It could possibly be a radar sensor to trace motion, like intently following gestures or detecting when somebody is close by the system, inflicting it to activate robotically like we’ve seen within the 60GHz sensors present in units just like the Pixel 4 and Aqara’s sensible dwelling presence sensor.

The Wi-Fi {hardware} within the first-gen Swap was created by Cypress Semiconductor, an organization that was acquired a number of years in the past by Infineon, which is now selling the capabilities of its 24GHz radar sensors. 24GHz radar can present a detection vary of as much as 100m, with penetration attainable by obstacles, on the tradeoff of a bigger dimension and decrease decision, in line with Infineon. We couldn’t inform which {hardware} is inside this system, however the Infineon web site consists of comparisons to 60GHz sensors.

It truly is anybody’s guess proper now given the restricted data accessible. But it surely’s rumor season with the Swap 2 coming, so tell us if in case you have any higher concepts!