Concept: The Nintendo NX running Android

I've drafted a concept of a future Nintendo console running Android and being portable. Android, already having extensive developer support and proper maintenance, has quality 3rd party apps and games available. Nintendo could filter the availability through the eShop, their app store. Wii U titles are available alongside new games built for the NVIDIA Tegra chip. Titles such as Miitoto and Pokemon GO are avaliable.

The home screen with search and notifications to the left.

Calls are minimized (and can be hidden) in the bottom right.

Quick settings alongside the account switcher and Nintendo dialer/voice chat app. The menu buttons are available on a swipe up or press of the Start button.

Alternate home screen.

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Play Nintendo Tour 2014 - In Review

   Today the team visited the Play Nintendo Tour 2014, an event hosted to show off the 2DS system and the whole game library available for anyone who wants to  buy one of the systems. For starters, they handed out small packets with a few things to bring home with you, a 10% off any Nintendo item at Target stores, a Tomodachi Life Demo code, and a sheet of paper that you can collect station stickers. These stickers are collected when you answer a trivia question for any of the 6 games being displayed around the event, along with a bonus sticker from the Tomodachi Life booth. 2DS systems are placed at every stand and you can demo any of the select 2DS titles, such as Yoshi's New Island, Super Mario 3D Land, Kirby Triple Deluxe, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and Pokemon X and Y. If you request a ticket, you can join the Mario Kart 7 trial races that happen during the event. If you have one of the best times out of the group you are in, you are allowed to move up to the semi-finals, and at that point you switch to the Wii U. You race across 4 tracks chosen by either staff or another player. If you pass the semi-finals, you move to the finals with narrators and a crowd watching. The winner of the finals wins a Mario Kart 8 poster and a small doll of Mario.

The seats for Mario Kart 7 Time Trails

Kirby running to the event

The finalists seats for the Mario Kart 8 Tournament

       We had an interview with Cory Alexander, a Nintendo employee working at the St. Louis Play Nintendo Tour event.

 Tyler: Do you have any Nintendo sneak peaks to share?
Cory: Maybe; next question.
Me: What's your favorite game here?
Cory: Kirby Triple Deluxe. I've been playing for the last 4 days straight now.
Tyler: Have you played Splatoon yet?
Cory: No, but on this tour I've mainly focused on the games here so I can demonstrate them to the consumer.
Tyler: What do you think of Yoshi's New Island?
Cory: Yoshi's New Island? I enjoy it. It's a side-scroller and is very much like the classic Super Mario Bros, where instead of playing as Mario or Luigi, you play as Yoshi with the help of Baby Mario to save Baby Luigi.
Tyler: Thank you!
Cory: Alright,

 If the tour is coming close to you, I recommend checking it out and to see more like this you can leave a comment about what you think.

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Get Heracross for Pokemon X and Pinsir for Pokemon Y via Special Distribution

   On the Nintendo Press website, they have announced a new release that is to come soon. Serial codes for Mega Pinsir and Mega Heracross, both level 50 with the mega stones will be distributed some time from now to September 17th.

The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo today announced that beginning August 13 in the United States and Canada, the Bug-type Pokémon Pinsir—normally only encountered in the Pokémon X video game—will be available to players of Pokémon Y via a special wireless Internet distribution. During the same wireless Internet distribution period, the battle-tested Bug- and Fighting-type Pokémon Heracross—typically only encountered in the Pokémon Y video game—will be available to players of Pokémon X. Fans of these powerful Pokémon will need to act quickly as this unique distribution is only available for a limited time, ending September 17.

    Nintendo Press
 
The Heracross, a Y-version exclusive, will be available to Pokemon X players with the moves Bullet Seed, Pin Missile, Close Combat and Megahorn. A Pinsir will be available for Pokemon Y players as it was only available in Pokemon X. It has the moveset of X-Scissor, Earthquake, Stone Edge and Return.

Players who visit participating GameStop stores to pick up the code can also pre-order the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire video games, releasing November 21, 2014, for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, and receive a special pre-order bonus poster. Codes for the Heracronite and Pinsirite Mega Stones and the bonus poster are available while supplies last.

   Nintendo Press

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PokemonCenter.com coming August 6th

   The new PokémonCenter.com will provide merchandise and exclusives to Pokémon fans around the US. The shop closed in 2008 due to the waivering popularity of the franchise, but the reboot comes hand in hand with the sudden surge if popularity since Black and White, and most notably, X and Y. It comes out slightly before the release of the next games in the series, remakes of two titles that had been released in 2003, Ruby and Sapphire. More news will be coming as the updates happen, so check back soon!

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SNES Advance Concept

Nintendo could be ahead of the curve, but why not look behind for a minute. The Gameboy Advance is an amazing console, but lacked actually advanced hardware besides its back lit display. Now that it is almost 2014, Nintendo should build their own "flashback console", as Atari and Sega have done. Sega's "Classic Game Console" functions with actual cartridges, and that wouldn't be a bad idea to catch on to.

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