Nintendo addressing the family market with NX according to Ubisoft

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Soundwave said:

SonytendoAmiibo said:

You are 100 pecent correct. Look at the DS and it's installed base, 150 million! In one generation the 3DS only has 58 million. Thats almost 2/3 of Nintendo's handheld market that went to mobile. 

Nintendo NEEDS to incorperate mobile phones and tablets into the NX ecosystem or they are at a major disadvantage. 

In effect maybe that's what NX could be, it's kinda their attempt at creating something that factors in the monstrous impact smartphone/tablets/apps have had. 

I think that NX running Android report from Nikkei was in fact largely correct. It'll probably a custom/propietary version of Android, but it'll be able to have Android apps which Nintendo can then distribute through their store (perhaps for a fee). 

And if you look at a controller on a screen on it ... well by now smartphone chips are so dirt cheap that you could put a $10 chipset in there too that could probably run Android apps even without needing the system. 

Now whether Nintendo would actually find success with this approach is anyone's guess. 

I can see Nintendo running a branched version of Android. Hell, Amazon has their own version.  

This is no joke, Nintendo has a mountain the size of a planet to climb to solve the "mobile destroying their market" problem. I wish them all the luck from heaven. They need it.