Nintendo to Consolidate Hardware Development

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I find it a good move by Nintendo.

In the short term it should reduce their costs, as well as allowing the handheld console team help the home console team to drive down the costs of the gamepad given that they have more experience with those kind of devices.

And in the long term, it could be a sign of Nintendo changing the way the see the market. A home console that uses a handheld as a controller could be their future. The only problem with that is that they should increase their software dev. teams to be able to produce games for both devices at the same time.