Yeah, the same thought struck me yesterday; all the rumors we've been hearing might turn out to be correct, but it might be two different kind of devices. That would explain some of the confusing, and some times contradictive, rumors.

Couldn't it be a hybrid as well as two devices? Like, you could take your controller and use it as a barebone portable console, as well as use the actual handheld console and use THAT as a controller?

Stop to listen rumors...  Listen Iwata... 

because of vast technological advances, it became possible to achieve a fair degree of architectural integration. that porting games across platforms would be much easier, and help solve Nintendo’s current problem of “game shortages.”

“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.”

“Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we would face serious shortages of software on every platform,”

“To cite a specific case, Apple is able to release smart devices with various form factors one after another because there is one way of programming adopted by all platforms.”

“Another example is Android. Though there are various models, Android does not face software shortages because there is one common way of programming on the Android platform that works with various models. The point is, Nintendo platforms should be like those two examples.”

Iwata never said one console for all games but one OS for all console 

Stop to listen rumors...  Listen Iwata... 

because of vast technological advances, it became possible to achieve a fair degree of architectural integration. that porting games across platforms would be much easier, and help solve Nintendo’s current problem of “game shortages.”



“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.”


“Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we would face serious shortages of software on every platform,”

“To cite a specific case, Apple is able to release smart devices with various form factors one after another because there is one way of programming adopted by all platforms.”

“Another example is Android. Though there are various models, Android does not face software shortages because there is one common way of programming on the Android platform that works with various models. The point is, Nintendo platforms should be like those two examples.”

Iwata never said one console for all games but one OS for all console 

Could be, but almost all rumours suggest that is hybrid in one package (handheld unit and base unit), not two separate devices that would be sold separate.

Actualy in some way he did said.

This is Iwata quote from January 2014, year after he mentioned "brothers in a family of systems":

“Still, I am not sure if the form factor (the size and configuration of the hardware) will be integrated. In contrast, the number of form factors might increase. Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we could face serious shortages of software on every platform.

Whether we will ultimately need just one device will be determined by what consumers demand in the future, and that is not something we know at the moment."

He basically said there is a possibility that form factor will be integrated and that there is a possibility for just one device, so it's very different way of thinking from that just one year earlier, and it seems that Nintendo continued with possibility of integrated form factor aka hybrid.

Yes, this would indicate two different devices that work together, but most rumors point to there being only one device. So it's hard to tell right now, which one it'll be.

I find it hard to believe that they could go from having two devices in development (which is what it sounds like from those quotes) to having just ONE device in under two years time. At first it sounds like there will be two devices, and then in 2014 Iwata opens up to the possibility of there beng just ONE device, but by then Nintendo should have been to far gone in their designs of TWO consoles that it would be kinda hard to simply drop/integrate one of them, no? But like I said, the rumors do seem to point to ONE device.

Yes, this would indicate two different devices that work together, but most rumors point to there being only one device. So it's hard to tell right now, which one it'll be.

For me, 

System NX is well 2 consoles, a portable and a home console.


The portable will be close to Vita for the power. Will have its own games. Look like a smartphone with pad detachable... 

The home console will be close to a ps4, but we will be able to also play with the games of the portable, home console will have a CPU x86 and a gpu amd, but also a ARM to ensure compatibility with the games portable.


Nintendo will replace the touch screen of the portable by the aiming system of Wiimote for the home console (intégred in pad detachable) .


Handheld device + pad detachable sold 149 dollars.

Home console + pad detachable sold 299 dollars

Bundle: home console + pad detachable + handheld device sold 399 dollars


The particularity will be a Community system of cloud using the home console to keep the online without month's subscription and to propose games massively multiplayer online (as well for the games portable as the games home console …) 

So people could take only HC or only HH, or both together, but features between them going to do that à lots take bundle... 

And if rumors speak about 1 console it's because Nintendo don't give all informations, studios are working on portable don't know anything about home console,  studios are working on home console don't know there is a portable too 

I dont think they ever had two devices in development, we are talking about January 2013, just few months after Wii U launch, at that time most likely they had just initial theoretical plans about new platform and they just talk about them and analyze them, and in some point later they decided its better to go with hybrid instead of multiple devices. Thats why year later we got Iwata quotes of possibilities of integrated form factor and one device.