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greenmedic88 on 15 November 2016
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DonFerrari said:
greenmedic88 said:

How was it good for SCE to differentiate itself by developing the CBE when perfectly acceptable x86 based CPUs were available? How was it good for SCE to differentiate itself by developing the PS3 OS when it ran LINUX out of the box as well? 

You're asking the wrong question to the wrong person. Nintedo does what it wants to do; they always have with mixed results.

They like full control of their walled garden which is what started the grumblings of 3rd party developers way back with the original NES, and lost them the majority share of 3rd party support by the time SCE rolled around with the original PS as a direct result of their controlling policies. It was that exact mindset that led to the development of the original Playstation to begin with as it was originally supposed to be a Super Nintendo CD-ROM add on. 

You're making the mighty assumption that presumably by merit of being Android, it will be better for Nintendo, because it's a better OS than anything Nintendo wants for their hardware. 

Top of the class OSs are irrelevant here. Like the customized chipsets that go into the hardware, the OS is virtually always specifically tailored to the overall platform based upon the requirements and desires of the company.

XB ran an OS based upon Windows, as did the XB360 and the XBO, because it was their platform, their OS and they weren't paying Windows licensing fees to themselves. Why wouldn't Microsoft do this?

Whether Nintendo wanted to start from scratch, use segments of code from the Wii U, run Android or even start with a stripped down, bare bones version of Android is entirely up to their whims. 

Again, Nintendo does what they want. 

It certainly wasn't positive to Sony, and I was under the impression it would be better to Nintendo to do it, instead of you just thinking they would do just because that is how they do it.

The merit I'm going is that it would enhance the number of apps and cheap games available to Nintendo. While you said that since Nintendo is such a majestic SW developer they would be better doing their OS than modifying Android, and I gone on Wii and WiiU which doesn't have a good OS and then it wouldn't be positive diferentiation so not a worth marketing point.

"Powered by Android" or the Nintendo Switch Android would have zero marketing value. 

I don't know if you remember, but way back during the original XB, a lot of developers were laughing that it ran off of Windows as if that was somehow lazy or defeating the purpose of developing a console. As in why not just sell a Windows branded gaming PC. 

I don't think Nintendo wants to have a boatload of apps and cheap games that run on other platforms that can't be monetized by them. 

For the record, at no point did the words "majestic SW developer" ever come off my keyboard prior to this with regards to Nintendo. Actually that would be the first time with regards to anyone and that was a direct quote. 

But I'll repeat myself because that's how this works. Nintendo likes having full control over their gaming ecosystems. If that means starting from scratch with a proprietary Switch OS, whether for security, monetary, creative or even pure whimsical reasons is entirely up to them, regardless of whether it results in a crap OS with a crap UI so long as it serves their purposes. They have shown time and time again to make a lot of really bizarre decisions, but hey; that's Nintendo.