Gaming Is anyone else dying to see what the Switch OS looks like?

[dpad_5678]

Saw what you want about Nintendo but there Home Menu / Title Screen / Bootup / Shop music is always fucking awesome.

 

[grossaffe]

it absolutely will not be android. Guaranteed. Lets set aside for a moment that Nintendo rolls their own OSes. Android is built off of Linux, which has the GNU license, which is a recursive license that requires that everything built off of it uses said license. The GNU license requires that all changes made must be published publicly. Thus, if Nintendo put a modified Android on the Switch, The source code for their OS would be open to the public, and that is NOT gonna happen.

There's more to OSes than "Oh, that's a Tegra processor? Must run Android."

 

[foob]

Android requires royalty payments, quite aside from any techincal reasons for rolling their own OS. Nintendo - the undisputed Kings of Cost-Savings - are keen to lower unit cost as much as possible. Android makes no sense.

http://www.howtogeek.com/183766/why-microsoft-makes-5-to-15-from-every-android-device-sold/