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Nintendo Confirms “NX” Will Not Run Android OS

After much speculation and rumors around Nintendo’sย next-generation console, codenamed “NX,” aย Nintendo Co. representative shot down the possibility that NX would be running the Android operating…

Ruben SousaBy Ruben SousaJune 8, 20152 Mins Read
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After much speculation and rumors around Nintendo’sย next-generation console, codenamed “NX,” aย Nintendo Co. representative shot down the possibility that NX would be running the Android operating system.

There is no truth to the report saying that we are planning to adopt Android for NX

Despite Nintendo previously announcingย it won’t be talking about the NX console until 2016,ย a Nikkeiย articleย becameย the cause of much debate after reporting that the new console would be running Google’s operating system. This report speculatedย that by using the Android OS, Nintendo could causeย more developers to build games for the system, and quoted both an inside source and the recent move into the mobile market as the reason for this speculation. This was ultimately proven untrue.

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Not even Wind Waker HD could stop the Wii U from being Nintendo’s slowest selling console ever

The use of an open source operating system could benefit a new Nintendo console a great deal, since the biggest problem the Wii U faced was developer diversity. A strong first party lineup and weak third party support made the Wii U a “commercial flop,” being the slowest selling console Nintendo ever made, including theย NES, SNES, N64. At the same time, despite all the advantages of an open source OS, itsย use could easily expose a system to security breachesย and “homebrew” software development and distributionย which in some cases couldย contain adult content, going against Nintendo’s target audience. The company’sย latestย financialย reportย painted the picture of a company slowly recovering fromย a yearly earning loss that startedย back inย 2012, although part of it’s recovery was due to “depreciation of the yen against the U.S. dollar at the end of the period compared to the exchange rate at the end of the previous fiscal year,” according to Nintendo. No NX news are expected at E3 this year, but we keep our fingers crossed that this new console is enough to breathe new life into Nintedo.

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