In the world of video games, nothing is quite as tantalizing as the prospects of new devices to play your games on. With any company, there's always an air of mystery whenever a new console is in the works.

Is this the one that will change everything? Will it flop and be a horrible joke for five years?

These feelings are exacerbated whenever Nintendo is involved because it never does the expected. Nintendo exists in its own strange little universe where raw horsepower is traded for unique features, both good (the Wii Remote) and bad (most things about the Wii U).

This is all true with Nintendo's next console, codenamed NX. Here is the story of an elusive game machine, the online detectives trying to solve the case, and the passion that drives them.