Nikkei: Nintendo NX to use Android OS

[Mr.Playstation]

walsufnir said:

Mr.Playstation said:

Soundwave said:

Not unless your other hardware devices use the same hardware components it won't. If the NX has a custom GPU for example from anything inside of a Galaxy phone for example, you can't just "port" Mario Kart 9 to it.

It's like saying someone could "hack" the XBox One and quickly run PC apps like Word, Office, on it because it does run Windows. Well yeah ... except the hardware is very different in actuality and the version of Windows the XB1 uses is heavily customized.

Or vice versa, someone should be able to "hack" a PC since it runs Windows just like the XB1 does to be able to run XB1 games on the PC ... it isn't that simple.

Modders can do anything and android is so open source unlike windows that porting over games from the NX to Android Devices will be easy as pie.

Huh? No. If Nintendo games rely on Nintendo hardware it won't work. Yes, you can hack everything but rewriting major parts of the code is not as easy as pie.

If you root an Android phone you can easily "Trick" your phone into thinking it has a different GPU ( especially common when Tegra 3 chips had games which where optimized for it). I'm sure modders can release some software which tricks Android phones into thinking they have that special Nintendo hardware and booom Nintendo NX games are playable any android phone!