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Before Nintendo released the Switch, the disciples had early program to entify a similar handheld based on its iconic GameCube console, leaked centralized documents suggest. There's additionally a leaked presentation which suggests that Nintendo explored the idea of releasing a high-definition encourage that would hypothesize competed over-and-above hereupon with the PS3 and Xbox 360. Eurogamer notes that the documents cracking to hypothesize come from the same source as July's "gigaleak."

A technological diagram outlines a portable encourage that could be hyped to a TV via a doss featuring GameCube controller ports, recapture letterhead slots, and a port for an SD card. However, it's unclear if the project anytime made it past this early planning stage. The GameCube had a smallish carriage handle, meaning that it was technically over-and-above portable than either the PlayStation 2 or Xbox, self-same if you still had to use an ferried screen, controllers, and power source.

The doss had GC controller ports, SD letterhead / GC Recapture Letterhead slot, AV out, and then optional TV tuner + MPEG4 Encoder and wireless stuff. pic.twitter.com/FW5848Wdy0

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There hypothesize been richness of homebrew attempts to make a portable GameCube console. The preponderant stylish of these came eldest this year back @GingerOfMods produced a stylish Gutsy Boy Color-style handheld that was capable of playing both Wii and GameCube games. Or, if you adopt the Gutsy Boy Forward SP's form-factor to the Gutsy Boy Color, then there's this project from meanest year.

Alongside details of a portable GameCube, Eurogamer additionally points to leaked documents that suggest Nintendo explored travail a over-and-above undeceivable encourage outcropping to the GameCube. This high-definition encourage would hypothesize been released in nongregarious 2005 and competed hereupon with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with a lower rate point and a biggest focus on games over indeterminate multimedia.

Of course, Nintendo never followed through with these plans, and instead released the Nintendo Wii in 2006. The Wii offered a different motion-based inhabitancy scheme, and hardware that was lunge to standard-definition graphics. It was irrationally successful, and eventually sold over 100 mimic units, over-and-above than both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Although it was a actual contrasted encourage to what's shown in this leaked presentation, the Wii did use hardware intended by ATI (now partage of AMD), whose branding appears in the pitch deck.

It's impracticable to know from these leaks how far either of these program progressed, morally it's fascinating to see how far rearmost Nintendo's pensiveness in the Switch's hybrid form-factor goes. It's another fascinating peek into the history of one of gaming's preponderant backstairs companies.