Nintendo NX: 7 New Leaked Details You Need To Know About

3. PS4, PC And Smartphone Compatibility?

In a separate leak, Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki spotted a reputable analyst's report that suggested Nintendo was gearing up to make the NX cross-compatible - to an unknown extent - with PCs, smartphones, and... the PlayStation 4?!? We've been given few hints as to how this would work - though the report points to recent patents Nintendo filed for 'shared processing' and a 'portable controller', which suggest that the NX could be designed to work with other devices. While smartphones were the first things mentioned in this report (which makes sense given Nintendo's imminent move into the mobile games market), the PS4 and PCs were also put forward as possibilities. Could the NX not be a full-sized console at all, but some kind of parasitic device that leeches off the processing power of other devices? Not likely, but if Nintendo do find some way of using the horsepower or other capabilities of other devices, then that really would be a shocking, game-changing move. With that said, this is the most speculative of all the leaks, even though it comes from good sources, so don't hold your breath for an NX console that leeches off the PS4's hardware just yet.