Rumors of Nintendo NX being a hybrid home and mobile console run across the web as recent job listings, one made for Lead Marketer for Handhelds and the other for Lead Marketer for Home Consoles, announced by Nintendo seem to suggest that a giant leap from the old consoles will be probable.
According to Gamingbolt, Nintendo's gesture of needing to hire two different marketing leads, who will be focusing separately on handhelds and on consoles respectively, can highlight that NX will not end up just being a hybrid console anyway.
Based on the report, the idea of having a "common hardware platform" is implicated to the thought that one does not need to acquire two marketing leads for the Nintendo NX, if the marketing is, according to rumors, designed to sell the system as a hybrid project.
Now, the whole project is being hinted with suggestions of the console changing plans after its announcement a few years ago, through Nintendo's late President Satoru Iwata discussions about NX:
"Home consoles and handheld devices will no longer be completely different, and they will become like brothers in a family of systems. Still, I am not sure if the form factor (the size and configuration of the hardware) will be integrated. In contrast, the number of form factors might increase. Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we would face serious shortages of software on every platform."
"To cite a specific case, Apple is able to release smart devices with various form factors one after another because there is one way of programming adopted by all platforms. Apple has a common platform called iOS. Another example is Android. Though there are various models, Android does not face software shortages because there is one common way of programming on the Android platform that works with various models. The point is, Nintendo platforms should be like those two examples."
The assumptions on NX's reported shift to multi-platform console will still be hanging until an official statement comes from Nintendo, Eurogamer reported. However, the company recently filed a patent application claiming its next hardware featuring detachable controllers, which could be one of the radical changes that will take place after the final confirmation of the consoles' transfiguration.