Nintendo has submitted a mysterious new wi-fi machine to the Federal Communications Fee (FCC) this weekend, and it isn’t the Change 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 Change (HAC-001) and DS (NTR-001) consoles.
It’s tagged solely as a “wi-fi machine,” not a “wi-fi sport console” or any type of controller like a Pleasure-Con. A fundamental diagram inside the paperwork exhibits a top level view of the place the FCC label will likely be “displayed in a despair 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 related to the identical USB-C charger that Nintendo ships with its Change consoles in exams, 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 probably the most attention-grabbing element we’ve. It might be a radar sensor to trace motion, like intently following gestures or detecting when somebody is close by the machine, inflicting it to activate mechanically like we’ve seen within the 60GHz sensors present in units just like the Pixel 4 and Aqara’s sensible residence presence sensor.
The Wi-Fi {hardware} within the first-gen Change 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 measurement and decrease decision, in line with Infineon. We couldn’t inform which {hardware} is inside this machine, however the Infineon web site consists of comparisons to 60GHz sensors.
It truly is anybody’s guess proper now given the restricted data accessible. However it’s rumor season with the Change 2 coming, so tell us you probably have any higher concepts!
