Nintendo Switch Software

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NightDragon83 said:

bdbdbd said:

It's a proprietary Linux, the same OS that NES Mini uses. Mini is to monetise the R&D that went to Switch development (and to test it in a market).

I'm just pointing out, that Wii U was the first Nintendo console to have an operating system. The DS, Wii and 3DS have just firmware and a graphical shell to access individual software (that's running directly on the hardware). 

Interesting ,thanks for that.  I always assumed the Wii DS and 3DS all had some sort of basic OS that allowed the consoles to run different programs / apps like YouTube & Netflix as well as managing downloaded / saved content on the console.  Don't the 360 and PS3 have basic OS's instead of just firmware as well?

Yes they do. But this is also why everything on Wii had to be programmed into the game code (voice chat, online functions, etc) because there was no OS that could handle these things by standard, and also these would take away resuorces available for developers into other stuff.