If investors start demanding then it might come true ...

I don't know. I think it would fail miserably. Nintendo would need one serious shitload of patents. So either they have to pay big time for each and every device sold, or they would need to buy one giant ass company, like Google did with Motorola. But even then, they lack the know-how and experience to really go into the smartphone business. I very much doubt they are able to create a device that could compete with the rest of the market. If they go low-end, the device will get destroyed in reviews. If they go high-end, it will be expensive as fuck, from what they would lose a big ass chunk of their fanbase - kids.

It could go either way. I would buy a Nintendo phone instantly. But when it comes to mass market, I think it would fail miserably.

I think that the NX will be partly a smartphone which will function with an OS owner of Nintendo, an OS close to android using Material Design (rules of design of UI of Google, used for Android 5.0)

After he is enough to create a pad special like that

http://www.journaldugeek.com/files/2011/09/ktspiderspider5.jpg

A special pad in which will fit the smartphone to form a true portable console


Nintendo will thus have the games smartphone and of the exclusive games in the continuity of the 3DS on only one machine…


I will finish by a quotation of Reggie questioned by TIME on the fact that Nintendo made a little the wide variation while arriving on Smartphone whereas the firm always proposed the interest of controllers for the gameplay…


TIME: Nintendo has long prided itself on its holistic approach to game design, meaning it controls both the hardware and software elements. Putting Nintendo software on non-Nintendo hardware like smartphones and tablets thus seems a significant departure from norm. When I asked Fils-Aimé how the company was able to square the apparent disparity, he told me he couldn’t pretend to know Nintendo’s full thinking on the matter, then said this:

“Hardware and software development inside Nintendo has always operated hand-in-hand. It’s a constant back-and-forth of ideation and real world solutions. Maybe the clearest example would be Wii Sports on Wii—we couldn’t employ a motion control game until there was technology that would support it. So we made that hardware ourselves.”

I think I have to go take a shit right now.

Oh, that's the thing that gets me worried; that investors see the dollar signs and try to force Nintendo into a business that they (from what I can gather) are ill-equipped to enter.  It's one thing to go up against Sony and MIcrosoft (in something that's not either of their main money makers) -- but to go up against giants like Apple and Samsung in their home turf -- that just spells disaster to me.

That puts me at ease then.