Heck nintendo briefly supported both the Gameboy advanced and DS, claiming the latter would not supplant the former. This would not be at all out of character for Nintendo.

Ok, I think I understand what you mean now but let me tell you why I don't think it would work.

The form factor of a handheld allows for a very limited power output. Imagine the most powerful handheld devices right now are flagship smartphones. There is simply no way you could take the best, most expensive top of the line smartphone and run any modern console/computer game. The ones you can usually are so graphics and processor intensive that dry out the battery in an hour or so (not mentioning the fact you'd need oven mints to hold it because of heat output).

The reason why there is the need for a console in the first place is because it's the most cost effective/power gaming device that can at the same time dissipate the heat and take not be constrained by limited batery constraints.

So you're left with 1 of 2 solutions:

1- the console is so weak that a handheld can perform at the same level (literally running the same games), in which case why do you even need the console?

2- the console is indeed powerful enough to do modern gaming and your handheld is simply a screen that receives the image output from the console and takes your input to play the games (same solution as game streaming between PS4 and PS Vita).

I literally think these are the only 2 options of this 'fusion' concept. None of them is ideal, but both are possible within reality as we know it.

That doesn't disprove anything. By you definition, no game can come out on a fusion device.

But this. Is. Huge. First game officially confirmed for NX is third party. And a significant one. Wow.

That was my first thought... Very excited to see that.

Mmm. Well I hope they do. Even this is more concrete than most other news. This isn't an indie studio. This is a big publisher with insider info.

Plus I really want to play this game and, no offense, but I could really go for a reason not to need buy a PS4 in the future. I like only needing to spend my money on one platform per generation. Then again, I'm fine playing on 3DS, so eh.

What makes you so sure? Lol. It's releasing on the 3DS for crying out loud.

Reggie already said that its a home console back at E3. I dunno why people are still trying to drag handhelds into this scenario.

It's good, at least, to hear that it's not completely turning off third parties at this stage. This could be a hint at the NXs third party offering. It will be interesting to see the first western multiplat confirmation.

But both games are on 3ds too. This does nothing to confirm what it is. Now if fallout was rumored to be coming to it we would know this was a console.

Here's me thinking you were going to prove something..