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Well, that's something, I guess... :P

Thank you for the clarification.

Not necessarily, Google announced that future versions of Android will be Vulkan compatible.

It's not the correlation of Vulkan and x86 but that Nintendo hasn't worked on x86 and may need an API that helps them make the transition to that architecture more easily. That's where Vulkan can help them.

After all, the other option would be to create their own API because would ban them from using DX (just like it does with Sony).

Another point is that Vulkan will work on both desketop hardware and mobile chips (x86 and ARM, basically), so it could be used to develop croos platform games more easily.

So we will get a chance to get VII remake and FF main series on a Nintendo platform after all because Cloud is coming to Super Smash bros huh ?

FF VII remake will be an expensive game to make. S-E knows that they can't launch a bad or just good product or the fans will riot and the game will flop.

With that in mind, I'd say that S-E is interested in launching the game on as may platforms as possible (PS4, X1, PC), and if NX sells good enough and has enough power, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of them launching the game on it too.

I doubt SE won't port any FF or DQ game to NX if the rumour about NX specs wasn't true 

But which one the many rumors are you talking about? The one that said that NX wouldn't compete with PS4? The one that said that it would have "industry leading chips"? Another one?

And as we know, it doesn't matter the specs if the sales don't go along with them.

The one that said it would include industry leading chips

I think as long as it strong enough to run modern 3D games nowaday, have all kind of games that attract Ninty/casual/hardcore gamers at launch, then it will sell like hot cake

Oh, that one.

You do realize that industry leading chips doesn't necessarily mean powerful chips, right? It just means the newest available chips right now in an undisclosed class. The A9X mobile chip is an industry class chipset, but it doesn't have the power to run PS4/X1 games, at least not without dialing down several things.

And personally I don't really believe the WSJ article where that was mentioned because they also said that the NX would come with the home console and a mobile device in the box. That is the home and handheld consoles together which implies a comparatively expensive retail price, something that goes against what Nintendo have said this past year.

I honestly think this is a very good possibility!!!!