Soundwave on 13 May 2014
The quote is "approximately 2 years", not sure why Nintendolife decided to reinterpret that as 2-3 years.
I think that all but confirms an account based Fusion-like platform for sometime around spring March-May 2016. He also reiterates again in the Q&A that Nintendo is moving away from device based platforms:
"I also mentioned in January (at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing) that we would change the definition of our platforms from being device-based to NNID-account-based."
Fusion platform is coming.
