Its a lot of talks lately on gaming forums about NX will be ne next Nintendo home console and will launch in 2016. 

I think its a big misunderstanding of what Nintendo authoriries were saying.

1. I never saw Iwata saying NX is the console. He speaks of it as of platform.

2. They will explain it next year. Nintendo is a conservative company. So if they show new console, home or portable, next e3, they wont pull a dreamcast releasing it in 2016. They'll get it for 2017, gathering feedback from gamers and building relations with 3rd partys from scratch.

So I think their behavior will be following:

1. Next year they'll show the NX platform. Which will be not a console, but infrastructure + dev tools. (Think ios/android witĥ a focus on touch/motion controls, and 2 screen gaming possibility).

2. Same year different date they'll anounce Fusion console which will be a hybryd between WiiU and 3ds, with games to be playable portative way and on a big screen, launching 2017.

3. Qol platform is the escape plan. If gaming industry is less interesting for business, they need a way to jump from the ship before its too late.

4. Mobile games will be a first nx software, then wiiu/3ds will be addid to it end of 2016. Also mobile games will be a possibility for Nintendo to use their brands/knowledge if/when gaming industry will start falling.

Thats my opinion on the situation, will add more soon, waiting for your comments!

Still clinging to the Wii U? E3 taught you nothing?

E3 showed me that great show =/= great games. And vise versa. Also i think your comment is off the topic here.

I feel that if Nintendo truly intends to cannibalize their handheld division for the sake of trying to bolster their home console division, Nintendo is going to crash and burn in the most ugly way possible. It's a decent idea on paper, but you have in all likelihood:

A) A very expensive handheld and a moderately expensive home console, similar enough in specs to run the same games, even if downported for the handheld meaning neither has a unique library

B) A lack of gamers purchasing both systems since a combined library makes owning both an irrelevant luxury

C) Many gamers simply not investing in the next generation of Nintendo handheld hardware, either because the handheld is too expensive, or it simply becomes inconvenient

No matter what, they only serve to lose customers, not actually gain basically anybody. This is why I have basically zero confidence in this idea people have of a combined platform. At that point, Nintendo may as well just announce that they're changing to a third party developer and switch to only making QoL hardware like Mario themed alarm clocks.

I think your explanation for the NX itself is closer to being on point than most guesses I've seen though. The way Nintendo announced it, they did not intend for the NX itself to replace any hardware. I even posted a slide from the presentation where they first announced it in a different thread where it clearly showed the NX being side by side but distinct from their current hardware line up, as well as other hardware out there (ie: tablets, smartphones, and computers). It makes more sense to see the NX itself as a unified development platform that helps to simplify game development than to see it is a hardware successor to any current generation hardware.

Yes, i saw that slide too!

So you're agree with me that all this 'zelda u to be on nx, metroid prime 4 is for nx' are a total bullshit? )

On the 'fusion' thing. They can make the following:

Make next portable system 'fused' with WiiU, out in 2017. Making wiiu games playable on it (aka some wii titles made its way on 3ds). AND make some uniqe games for it (AC, fire emblem, pokemon). Then in 2018 WiiU succesor will out, playing wiiu/fusion games thru nxvc and having its own unique games. And so on.

At least it will sound like some strategy plan! ))

FRom what i seen, idk. REggie even said they are working on their next console that will they announce next year, but maybe its an misunderstanding and tis a handheld hybrid that better connects with the Wii U

Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony are literally always working on their next consoles. The moment a console launches, at least part of their R&D divisions are right on either improving the current hardware or figuring out what could possibly make for the best successor. Reggie saying they're working on their next console is just common sense. Saying it will be announced next year just coincides with the Wii U's natural life expectancy. They have in no way even sort of hinted that the NX will be a hardware successor. A hardware successor is surely coming, but it is in all likelihood only related to NX, not NX itself.

Entirely agree with you. Wii U will stay here for years to come in NX form, whatever that means !

Poll added.

your point 2 is troubling.

Nintendo should have already gotten feedback from 3rd parties since they all jumped ship. If they need feedback in 2016 then it is already too late.