Following the financial results issued last week, Nintendo has now issued the officially translated Q & A with shareholders in which company President Satoru Iwata addressed a series of tough questions, some of which concerned the company's plans over the next 2-3 years to bring back handsome profits.

It's clear, for example, that the company is being forced to think beyond this current financial year when outlining its strategies to return to its previous success. Touching upon ideas emphasized in January, Satoru Iwata moved to dampen expectations of dramatic hardware reveals in the near future, explaining that the company's bold plans to revolutionise gaming platforms is still a little while away, while repeating that the QOL (Quality of Life) platform will be unveiled in the current financial year ahead of its release next fiscal year.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/05/nintendos_plan_for_redefining_the_definition_of_video_game_platforms_around_two_years_away

I guess this confirms all the nonsense about Nintendo abandoning the wiiU in 2015 will not happen! I will be interested to see what the tits the QoL thing will be and what the their next console will be all about but till then, I will have fun playing games on my wiiU

Finally gonna squash rumours of a Wii U successor unveiled this or next year. QoL is intriguing me, if only to find out what it is

I think its safe to think E3 2016 reveal and release late 2017

Nintendo needed a new leader before the R&D started on the next console, now even if they get a new leader he can't do anything and is stuck with Iwata's vision for next gen...

I think this generation will last longer then last.

What if their talking about 3DS' successor and Wii U's in 2018

I'm sticking with 2016 for next-gen handheld and 2017 release for console...so yes.

2 years from now on is still 2016.

We'll see and I could be wrong, but anything he comes out with is gonna be a gamble, it all depends on if it catches on or not.