DanneSandin said: This has me somewhat worried; the family market has moved on to mobiles and iPads. There's no reason why they should be coming back to Nintendo! Why would Nintendo think so? The casual family market has been getting used to free to super cheap games, why pay $60 for one now?! I was really hoping that the NX would be a hybrid and cut down the development time for games |
I really wonder if that Nikkei report even if Nintendo denied it is actually mostly true about Android.
Nintendo has denied things about Nikkei before and they have after wards come out to be pretty much true, (Nikkei said 3DS XL, Nintendo said no, Nikkei said Nintendo making smartphone games, Nintendo said no). Nikkei even reported about a Seaman game being funded by Nintendo, which seemed to be false, but last year at Mr. Iwata's funeral the creator of the game let out that they were indeed making Seaman for 3DS.
My guess is Nikkei is correct again about Nintendo using Android, but it will just be a Nintendo custom OS, which can run Android apps. Amazon does this already for their Fire tablets.
They'll have a free-form LCD controller which can run Android apps/games by itself (maybe DS/3DS/VC games too), meaning it has its own chipset (mobile chips akin to a phone 1-2 generations ago are dirt cheap), and then one more gimmick controller. Fairly modest console, 1TFLOP maybe that allows for some ports.
That's my guess. The hope is to get app-addicted families/kids to get their app fix but get some Nintendo games into the mix too. $299.99.