I don't think Nintendo would do this but I kinda wonder about the concept of a "stackable"/linkable console. With mobile components it would be doable.
Lets say the base NX processor (system on chip, CPU + GPU) is roughly 350-400 GFLOPS performance at 4-5 watts (suitable for a handheld or tablet form factor in other words). 3GB LPDDR4 RAM + lets 32MB stacked high speed RAM (this will be Nintendo's big hardware innovation with AMD the stacked RAM thing to save die space).
Lets say the home console NX is made up of the same processors, it just has three of them. So now you're up to 1+ TFLOP. Lets bump the RAM to 6GB LPDDR4 RAM + 96MB stacked RAM (due to having 3x SoCs). This is still only at about 15 watts.
Now here's where it could get interesting ... what if, Nintendo allowed daisy chaining of NX consoles? I'd have to imagine they'd be quite compact, probably far smaller than a Wii U (esp. with no disc drive). Linking two gives you 2+ TFLOP performance with 12GB RAM + 192MB stacked RAM ... that's above a PS4.
Linking three ... you're at the 3.5 TFLOP range now with 18GB main RAM ... at still a reasonable 45 watts power consumption.
Maybe it wouldn't be that straight forward, but just throwing the basic idea out there. That would solve the conundrum of horsepower anyway ... as the mobile chips scale down in cost (and they probably would quickly because Nintendo would be using the same processors/RAM/etc. in both the handheld and console versions) buying multiple "NX" to theoretically double or triple the systems power, might not be a bad way to go honestly.
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