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Miyamotoo on 14 March 2015
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Soundwave said:

There won't be a successor to Wii U.

Wii U is Nintendo's last "big box" console.

And honestly the industry has never really supported three successful consoles outside of the last cycle ... and likely won't. People don't want three console choices.

Next-gen you will be able to play Nintendo games on your TV, but it'll just be their handheld chipset (souped up maybe) + handheld library. Wii U is the last "traditional", discreet Nintendo console in a lot of ways IMO.

Enjoy your Wii U while it lasts IMO. It's the last of its kind. To be honest I think the next console hardware cycle will largely be the last traditional one, with Playstation 5 and maybe an Next XBox (XB2?). After that streaming services and things of that nature will take over. 

Nintendo already talked several times about their plans for next home and handheld consoles, and they will be again two consoles, but this time they will be "like brothers in a family of systems" with same architecture, probably same OS, cross play/cross buy and heavy home/handheld integration.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-s-next-console-and-mobile-will-be-like-brothers/1100-6417496/

 

spemanig said:
Miyamotoo said:

Releasing next handheld year after New 3DS and releasing home console later on same year!?

Not a chance, maybe we can see next handheld on Q4 2016 but no way we can see next home console same year, they need more time for preparing new console and games, especially because now they need to have very good launch with big games.


It's not like it hasn't happened before. And it would be a year and a half, not a year. That's almost two years later. Apple releases multiple different peices of hardware each year to constant and massive success. No reason Nintendo can't do something similar. If Nintendo can release a new iteration every single year since the 3DS first came out, they can release it's successor a year later as well.

With a unified platform, they don't need time "preparing a new console and games." The whole purpose of a unified platform is to negate those artificial hangups. It'll effectively be the same as upgrading a PC. Same library, better hardware. They can still somewhat support the Wii U because it'll be BC. Because it's absorbing the Wii U's architecture, the games will just come out as developing for it will be similar enough, just like the GCN to Wii transition, a fact Nintendo themselves has already stated.

Spring/Summer of next year is not almost two year from New 3DS, thats around a year and half, and I cant see them releasing any new hardware in Spring/Summer, every new hardware is releasing in holiday season with a reason.

You cant compare Apple product or any tech product with consoles, gaming consoles are not phones or tablets.

I agree for announced unified platform, but that doesn't mean that they will release next home console earlier than 2017, because they will need time to prepare all that and they need to have very good and strong launch.

I cant see next handheld earlier then 2016. holiday and 2017. for home console.

And this year on E3 we will some new Wii U games for 2016.