So, Nintendo proper is actually developing the mobile games. Interesting.

What's new? They announced that since March in the DeNa presentation.

OT. There are some exciting quotes:

"we are planning other applications that will work with Nintendo’s dedicated video game systems"

This one is so exciting that confirms the the NX will feel like a mobile Nintendo device.

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I'm not sure if it was already posted (because I don't visit NX threads), but that's the most important part in Q5:

Genyo Takeda (Senior Managing Director, Technology Fellow):

I understand that, thanks to the evolution of computer technology, aiming to realize a virtualized software development environment that does not depend on specific hardware is becoming the technological norm today. Simultaneously, regarding input and output technologies, I believe that it is also in line with the current technological trend that Nintendo should challenge itself with the creation of a unique user interface.

Holograms - you heard it here first.

That would be cool, tbh.

This was an extremely boring Q&A session. No real reveal at all. A lot of very obvious question dodging.

Hm. UI focus. Now where oh where have I heard that before?

The Playstation 4 has the crappiest UI this gen arguably of all the major consoles, yet it's far and away the best selling video game platform on the planet.

The Vita's UI is better than the 3DS' too, yet the 3DS is trouncing the Vita's overall sales.

People just want to play games on their game consoles (go figure) with an easy way to access Netflix/Hulu on the side maybe and that's about it.

To be honest I don't think people want to do 1000 different things while sitting in front of their TV. TV time is either relax time or "entertain me" time and that's it. I don't want to check work emails when I'm watching TV or playing games. I don't want to check the weather, Twitter, Facebook, browse web sites, either, and I think most people are the same way. 

I want to be able to watch TV (usually live TV like sports), or movies, or play games. That's all. That's all a game console's OS needs to be able to do, on top of having an online shop that's straight forward to browse (all three of Sony/Nintendo/MS already have this) and an online community structure that lets me play games I enjoy online with other players. 

There's no magic to it beyond that. MS tried and failed miserably this gen to emphasis the OS too much with all the XBOne extra functionality and "living room hub" nonsense. And they are getting trounced by Sony as a result of that focus, now they're trying to scramble and reposition the XBOne as a game centric box but the damage has already been done. 

The television simply is not the iPhone or computer. Even Apple has not been able to turn the AppleTV into anywhere near the success the iPhone/iPad are. People don't want the TV to be ubiquitious multi-use device. The TV is there to provide entertainment. That's it.