Prediction: Wii U will survive for five years off 3DS sales might, whether it sells gangbusters or not.

[_crazy_man_]

Prometheus20911 said:

_crazy_man_ said:
The curse of the double posts strikes twice!

Anyhow while I don't doubt consoles being phased out eventually I feel Nintendo will might make a console/handheld hybrid so they can focus on one market.

You either just described smartphones/tablets, or every fischer price learning toy lol.

 

I actually expect nintendo do go a very "Toys-R-US" route if it becomes obvious that they can't handle anymore dedicated market competition. Sony will stream to PlayStation.Mobile & microsoft will do the same with windows phones. Nintendo is odd man out.

I meant in the tradtional gaming sense.  Handheld gaming at its core was for gaming on the go with games that could be played in short sittings,  now with more powerful hardware we are getting more and more console like games from our handhelds.  It would seperate itself from smartphone/tablet gaming in the fact that it would actually have buttons/analog sticks.  Imagine a Wii U Gamepad with the console built in with only digital/streaming games. 

Nintendo is already possibly hinting at this with the merging of all their handheld/console divisions back in Feb.