Slimebeast said:
Soundwave said:
It comes from a Nikkei report actually, they said their sources have told them NX would run an Android "based" OS. I think they got the gist of this correct (it will run apps) but not vanilla Android (or certainly not a non-custom version of it). Something custom to Nintendo but can run the apps or run them easily.
Nikkei has been right about many things before, they said Nintendo was making a 3DS XL, Nintendo denied this, then announced 3DS XL like a month later. They said Nintendo was making smartphone games, Nintendo denied this, then announced like 9 months later they're making smartphone games and the idea had been brewing for over a year.
Nikkei also reported that Nintendo was making a Seaman game for 3DS ... now you can say, well that never happened, but actually at Mr. Iwata's funeral the creator of Seaman confirmed he was working on a Seaman game for Nintendo, it just ran into development problems and never came out.
So yeah, I trust Nikkei, also I think logically it just makes sense. Nintendo is never going to win an arguement with kids if the arguement is "put away your smartphone apps and play our walled ecosystem instead". Kids are not going to let go of the apps they love and they're not going to carry around two large devices to play with.
Plus there's money to make from these apps ... Apple/Google take a 30% cut all revenue from iOS/Google Play store. On NX, that revenue would go to Nintendo. So there's strong financial motivation as well, especially given Nintendo's unreliable 3rd party relationships and not being able to rely on licensing fees there.
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Damn it. Sounds plausible then.
It's just not because I dislike Android, it's also because as a classic company I want Nintendo to feel unique and exclusive (and I don't like this Mario release on smartphone at all). They should not dilute their brand name too much. But perhaps a custom version of the Android app store won't do that, I'm not sure.
Now that I think about it, what arguments, besides pure emoptional, are there for Nintendo to not implement an extrenal app store like Android's?
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I think the OS will still be pretty much custom Nintendo, but there will be some kind of way for existing apps to be implimented into either natively right off the hop or a very, very simple porting process.
You'll go into your Nintendo eShop on NX and see "NX Games", "Apps/Games", "Virtual Console/HH" categories. I think it'll just be that simple. Click on the Apps section and you can download things like Angry Birds or Final Fantasy VII or Real Racing 3 and play.
Blackberry has a phone that uses their Blackberry OS, but can load games from Amazon's Android store (so Android apps basically work on it). I guess Nintenod could do something like that, only cut out Amazon obviously.
There are some pretty decent mobile games too ... I wouldn't mind playing some of those Square-Enix iOS/Android games with physical controls.
