At an investor meeting last year, Iwata said this:

"In this perspective, while we are only going to be able to start this with the next system, it will become important for us to accurately take advantage of what we have done with the Wii U architecture. It of course does not mean that we are going to use exactly the same architecture as Wii U, but we are going to create a system that can absorb the Wii U architecture adequately. When this happens, home consoles and handheld devices will no longer be completely different, and they will become like brothers in a family of systems."

What exactly does he mean by "absorb" Wii U architecture and how does one do that without using the same architecture as Wii U?

Hopefully it doesn't mean that they're going for PowerPC again .-.

They desperately need to cut the cord with PowerPC and not let ageing architecture hold them back next gen.

it means doom if its powerpc

I think that's exactly what it means...

I'd love to see how some people attempt to answer that question myself.

5 responses already and none have even attempted to answer the question lol

No matter what it meant, it *should* mean "bye bye PPC". While I totally like backwards compatibility, it did almost nothing for WiiU so they should go with a different solution. I don't see emulation happening, too.

What's the point of building a platform with the purpose of absorbing the Wii U's architecture if it completely throws all the benefits of absorbing the Wii U's architecture?

BC isn't going anywhere. Same with emulation.

Oh, they all answered the question. They just don't like the answer, lol.