A lot of the discussion on this thread is painful to read. The conclusions being drawn are ridiculous. Here's the topic of "Mums" from the interview:
One question that he was asked referred to how the interviewer had heard that Nintendo had aimed for the Wii to be in family living rooms, and therefore be a console that parents – specifically mums – wouldn’t hate. Nikkei Today wondered if there were the same ambitions with Nintendo NX
“I can’t talk about this in detail yet, but we are aiming so that neither people who like games nor mums dislike it,” Takahashi explained. “I think that I want to release a game device that both customers who have much experience in gaming and customers who haven’t played much can enjoy greatly.”
So, just so we're all super clear here, Takahashi did not say NX was targeting mums. In fact, he didn't say Wii targeted mums. Even the interviewer didn't, he just said he heard it was designed in such a way that mums "wouldn't hate it". Takahashi, in turn, replied that he hoped the system would appeal to everyone, which if he and Nintendo have any brains whatsoever, should be their goal. It should be the goal of any product maker.
Nothing - absolutely nothing - in the article implies that the system will be weak. It doesn't imply anything whatsoever about the tech specs of the system being good, bad or made of peanut butter. He's simply saying that the system should have experiences for new and veteran gamers. He also says that he hopes they have created an environment that makes developing games smooth for their software teams. This probably means one, some or all of:
-easy to use hardware setup such as lots of RAM or other things devs like.
-One unified OS environment for both home and handheld systems, or just one system.
-support of third party software engines - Iwata had previously said they need to embrace this.
-stronger network and OS environments than Wii U and 3DS provided.
Everyone needs to reign in their imaginations on everything else. We're all anxious to know what NX is, but this articles says or implies little to nothing about the hardware, weak or strong.
