I'm a little worried that is the message he's sending to a lot of gamers with these interviews.

If they don't shore up the Wii U collection before they do a full unveil of the NX, they'll lose a lot of credibility -- just as Sega did when releasing the DC so soon after the Saturn and CD. The Dreamcast was an excellent machine (I just got a VGA cord for mine and the old girl is knocking my socks off with picture clarity), but that move hurt Sega's image with the consumer and buyer confidence evaporated. 

EDIT: I think Nintendo made the right move by announcing the NX with the mobile deal. It assures their core audience that they'll still have dedicated systems in the near future. What I'm concerned about is all the attention they've been laying on it - given that the mobile announcement was supposed to be the news and the NX was supposed to be hush hush until this E3, hint hint until next E3.

To be fair he was probably just mouthing off to make up for the fact he has absolutely no information whatsoever.

I'll take the refinement of what has been proven to work over your "surprises" any day of the week, Mr. Iwata.

This leads me to believe they are developing a software platform like ios or Android. It will surprise gamers in that their existing devices will be able to play it and will be available everywhere. I have mixed feelings about it.

I like that Nintendo is always trying to come up with new things, I don't get why people want 3 nearly identical consoles, if u want something like PS4 or XB1........just get a PS4 or XB1, that's just my opinion tho.

I think you already surprised enough people by going mobile

Hopefully they surprise us in a good way, lol.

HE hasn't laid that much attention on it to my knowledge.  The MEDIA has laid attention on it.  And the NX isn't going to show up at this E3.  He said they only had hopes to give details on 2016, it's not going to show up at E3 2015.  

Do you guys honestly believe Nintendo could succeed if they made a clone of the other consoles? The only reason they're alive today (in the console business) is because they took risks with innovative hardware and make profits on said hardware. The GameCube shows that Nintendo, for some reason, can't compete if their console is just another competitor with its own exclusives. It was cheaper than the PS2, and more powerful. Nintendo still didn't get the user-base and third party support of the PS2. Sure, having third parties on board would be helpful, but the costs involved to get third parties are more than "making powerful and comparable hardware." I honestly don't believe third parties will come in such a situation, alone. Nintendo would also have to pay publishing costs, have licensing deals, so on and so on.

Nintendo's mistake this generation was principally deviating from their principles to try to please third-parties, while not deviating enough in order to please the new market expanded in the past. But anyway, manufacturers have been innovating from the NES, and Nintendo has been one of the key companies in such innovations. I don't see "surprises" as a bad thing. One of the boring things about this generation for the "almost- fullHD" consoles, is that they are not surprising. They are closed platform gaming PC's (and under-powered for that purpose at that.)

Hmm. My interpretation - (in brackets, which could be completely wrong of course)

"However, if you only expand upon existing hardware, it’s dull." - (Referring to Sony and MS?)

"In some shape or form, we’re always thinking about how we want to surprise players as well as our desire to change each person’s video gaming life." - (Like the Wii and the Wii U, we want to come up with something completely different again.)

This fits in with him talking about developing a "dedicated game platform with a brand-new concept under the development codename “NX.”"

Doing something different is what Nintendo like to do. So I don't think he's revealed anything with this latest interview.