Predicting The Nintendo Project Cafe Part 3

A lot of the speculation heading into E3 is that Nintendo’s new console (now officially confirmed) will have many styling cues from the Super Nintendo console of the 90′s. I think it’s great Nintendo is embracing it’s design heritage going forward. Let’s face it, each generation of Nintendo has a very unique appearance - hard to believe they are from the same family.

For this design I decided to look at another console to draw styling cues from - the last cartridge console, the Nintendo 64:

Back in the day, I remember the 64 getting a lot of grief. It didn’t use discs. It wasn’t as graphically stunning as the PSone. The good games were few and far between.

However I will always remember the 64 being as revolutionary. The first analog stick control. The first rumble feedback. And a huge leap forward in gaming with titles like GoldenEye 64, Ocarina of Time, and of course Mario 64.

For this design I used the same 4-button layout as the previous design I made. These buttons would be for power, eject, home, and controller sync. I then turned the N64 controller port into a display to indicate the number of controllers in use - seemed appropriate.

Here is one made in the colorful style of the N64, complete with a stand:

I personally liked the colorful style of the N64, though many people would dismiss it’s appearance as toy-like. Probably the last color-laden console we’ll ever see.

There are a few more images after the jump…