NVIDIA CEO about Switch: “it was such a ground-breaking design”

[DonFerrari]

greenmedic88 said:

DonFerrari said:

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. 

 

On the majestic you know I was being hyperbolic, sorry if you took it wrong. You aren't wrong that it isn't marketable that it's being powered by Android, but they don't need to market the OS, I just don't see any reason on differentiate by being worse, and if you market that you can end up doing worse. But I do agree that Nintendo may decide on proprietary for a plethora of reasons and it may end up good or bad. About the MS OS I don't remember that, even more because dreamcast already had a version of Windows CE (i think) on it.