[General Topics] HarvHouHacker:
This thread has gone REALLY inactive, so I'm bumping it again. I've decided to post some of my thoughts on what I'd want the NX to be like.

In recent years, Nintendo has been barely making their sales goals, because they don't seem to be as good as they used to be. Sure, there have been a few nice, unique concepts, but consider this - would you rather have the Wii U, which has a few hundred games, or the Playstation 4, with most of the same features but more games (almost a thousand) and more ways to play, such as playing on your laptop? Sony has an unfair advantage over Nintendo because Sony markets all kinds of electronics, while Nintendo is mainly a video game company.

Ideally, if Nintendo wants to stay dedicated to being a gaming company, they need to be able to reach all markets with a console (or more than one) that everyone will want to play on, no matter what age, race, religion, sex, or so on. While this seems rather hard to achieve, I've come up with two marketing methods they could use:

Method One: Something For Everybody. It's possible that Nintendo may want to stay proprietary, so with this method, you can have as many as two systems. One is for the people who want it all - the "bells and whistles" system. This system has as many features as one can cram into a console - internet multi-player play, downloadable content, built-in cameras, microphones, 3D displays, etc. Alternatively, Nintendo could also have the simplified "obsolete gaming" console, in which all you do is plug in a cartridge or insert a disc, and play. It plays the same games, but without all those additives that are crammed into a sleek system. While this may sound like a good method, I'm sure anyone who reads this will agree that this is costly and not very effective (remember how the Wii Mini was too simple in comparison to the Wii? For a "bells and whistles" comparison, how about the headache-producing Virtualboy?), but it is something worth considering if Nintendo wants to reach a wider audience.

Method Two: The Building-Blocks Console. This is my favorite method, because it's cheaper, and easier to handle than Method One. Imagine that you have a peg-board, and a bunch of LEGO bricks. You decide that you want to build some houses, each in a solid color. Next, you may want to add some vehicles, a few trees, and some characters to "live" in it. Eventually, you may change your display by taking away a house to build a mall, or perhaps group all the trees and create a forest. This sounds fun, but what does this have to do with game consoles by Nintendo? The answer is a console that is extremely simple (like the Raspberry Pi, only maybe not that simple!:p), and have all these add-ons that are inexpensive and allows you to only include what you want. Want internet? Nintendo sells a WiFi card for that. Want to take pictures and use voice recognition features? Nintendo has a camera and microphone bundle that snaps on the unit. Want to play your favorite Game Boy titles, without buying the games again from the eShop? Nintendo has an adapter for that unit that the Game Paks can fit into. Add this, add that - and better still, you can detach it again for certain situations where the accessory would not be needed or perhaps even bad if left on and turned on, i.e. if a child is using the unit, you may want to unplug, or at least disable, the WiFi card.

So, what does this have to do with the NX - and why am I talking about this on a site that talks about Android? My guess is that Nintendo may have been developing a microconsole, and with such could be more than likely Android-based. It would be lightweight, thus could also be portable, if not also a handheld gaming unit that resembles the Wii U's Game Pad. It would be simple, thus you could add to it. Best of all, if it has Android, it would be very flexible, and be able to support a wide variety of games.

No, I don't work at Nintendo, and never plan to, but this is merely a theory based on what I've read on various sites that have covered the NX. Tell me what you all think! :confused: