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It seems we have come full circle.

That's what they've said. They said they will not combine their platforms, they will still have a console and a handheld.

Yes, as price becomes a big issue getting rid of the pad will become one way to cut costs lower price and not be in the red.

He's not saying remove the pad...

Yes i come to that too.. A gamepad less version would remove to many functionalitys and the "special" of the console just to make it 30-40$ cheaper (there still need a controller in the box) .. i don't see it

To the topic.. We know Nintendo proberly will do a hyprid next gen.. So it would not make sense to do it in the WiiU's end.. but i could see it happend 2-3 years from now.. it makes sense.. if they can get the power of WiiU in a handheld and battery for 4-5 hours (it could be a litle bigger than Upad is now)

They could also choose to go the "vita tv" way.. Meaning a Normal Upad.. and a super slim WiiU "cube".. that would offcourse remove the portable function, but that would mayby make sense for Nintendo.. (not to make the true portable console before next gen few years after)

To the "should have HDMI"... Nintendo could make a recierver to the tv, and just send the signal the other way

Last.. We may see this first in china.. Nintendo sayd that they would need some other than just a normal WiiUfor that market

This could very well mean a hybrid.. And it would not even need the power of WiiU.. Would make it cheaper and also if it's not yet posible

(I bet a lot of Nintendo's WiiU games can run on lower Hardware..   And they can also lower settings a litle = Almost the same MK 8)

so a nintendo streaming PSNow like for the ... pad? why not just get rid of it and stream the games to any phone tablet pc tv like PSnow, why in any case keep the pad..  

No it would have hardware capable of producing WIi U games. By 2016 power consumption should be minimal to make a portable WIi U Gamepad that you can use anywhere and play your downloaded games. 

They've said no such thing. But whatever, just because they have a hybrid doesn't mean it won't have a separate console and handheld component to it.

No. It's just not possible. While the hardware isn't the hottest on the planet, there's no way of shrinking it enough to fit it inside the gamepad. You can of course have hardware in a few years with comparable power, but that would be a complete different architecture (most likely ARM) that won't ever be able to emulate Wii U games.

PowerPC just uses way too much power to be ever used in such a small form factor. I mean, it could most likely be optimized to reach the same levels as ARM, as they are both RISC CPUs and the PPC architecture isn't bad by any means. But nobody would ever throw money out of the windows to do that and surely not Nintendo themselves. PowerPC is more or less dead, apart from embedded systems, and that's why its evolution has struggled to keep up with other architectures.