You're doing it again. I am an adult and the 3DS and Wii U meet my "needs." I don't even see what "needs" have to do with it, you obviously don't "need" more power because you bought both of those systems at launch. I don't see how being an adult relates to requiring more power, either. Seems to me most people grow out of the desire for bigger numbers as they get older.

You're still missing the point because Wii U and New 3DS are still too expensive -- worse, there is a cheaper model of New 3DS available in every major territory except North America. Again, I cut the cost of the hardware down by one-third, far from a trivial amount when discussing a sum north of $500.

That's fine that it meets your needs. 

In my opinion it would be nice *for once* to have some of those restrictions that Nintendo places on themselves lifted. 

The current hardware philosophy that they have sure as fuck is not resonating, not even with kids, so going a different route will at least be interesting to see. 

You can't build hardware like it's 1988 anymore. The world has moved (way) past that, Nintendo is making products for a world that doesn't exist any more than a moonwalking Michael Jackson does. If Nintendo wants any relevancy then they have to adopt something different. 

A thing to have in mind. If the NX is based on Android, will it have two eShops, one for the Nintendo stuff and other for the Android based apps? Will it accept Nintendo eShop cards and GooglePlay cards?

Probably one shop. See: Amazon's Kindle tablets. 

In fact I wouldn't be surprised if Android apps have a "Nintendo tax" on them (ie: a $1 app is $1.50 or $2 on your NX portable because Nintendo gets a cut of each paid app). 

Didn't they start this exact same rumour about the WiiU once?

I don't see how this is bad in any way. It is an existing os Nintendo can customize. It runs on x86, arm and ppc so they still have every option for hardware. It already has a lot of games (especially the nowadays so important indie games) and it has already a lot of apps Sony and MS try to get to their closed systems. That said, I don't believe the system will have the Google Play Store installed but it is still a good go for Nintendo, in my opinion.

Yeah...I'm not so sure. Seems far too much of a departure from Nintendo to do something they arguably know very little about as opposed to continuing in a market which has been incredibly successful for them.

Not saying it's impossible for it to be some Android device ofcourse. But, you'll have to show me some physical evidence before I believe you.

Not sure if people remember but this rumour also did the rounds prior to the 3DS (or WiiU?) announcement.

Not from Nikkei it didn't. They are quite reliable and well connected with Nintendo and they should be, they are basically the largest business newspaper/service in Japan. This isn't some silly fan site. 

This isn't really that great of an idea, in my opinion. If the next Nintendo handheld/Console will be based in Android, I'm sure a hacker will be able to find a way how to port those games over to Android phones Tablets without much difficulty. This would make the next Nintendo device, absolutely redundant.