I'm a AAA dev who works with an actual NX devkit. I've been developing a game for it for about six months.
I will not post pictures, and I won't tell you where I work because I don't want to risk losing my job. However, I can tell you some info on it without giving away to Nintendo or my boss who I am.
For starters, that "leaked" NX controller is a fake. It's really convincing, but the controller that we have on our devkit is nothing like that.
Our devkit's controller:
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Doesn't have an oval screen. Ours is a standard rectangle.
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Has physical buttons with a screen behind them. It doesn't have a form shifting screen, nor does it have a touchscreen with haptic feedback.
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Is hardwired to the devkit, which looks like a boring black box with some USB ports and a disc drive.
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However, that fake does get a couple things right. It does have scroll wheel shoulder buttons, but in addition to them it also has two regular shoulder buttons labeled ZL and ZR. It also has a headphone jack in the bottom of the controller.
Some other things I can tell you:
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I don't know if the NX is backwards compatible with the Wii U or 3DS or not, but it doesn't look like it is. The system is different enough from both that I think it would be hard to play games from other consoles.
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The controller is sort of a game system in its own, but it's not a replacement for the 3DS. It works like a companion app on a phone, and you can take it with you and control some things from your game, like how the VMU on the Dreamcast let you take a Chao with you and train it.
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No one outside Nintendo knows what the NX's name is. It's still the NX here internally.
Ask me anything about the NX devkit, and I'll answer as best as I can without revealing who I am.
No way of verifying it of course
