The NX is confirmed to be a home console. (not that it needed any confirmation)

[Jon-Erich]

spemanig said:

Jon-Erich said:

But Iwata himself referred to it as a third piller earlier this year. 

No he didn't. That's litarally made up bullshit pulled out of somebody's ass. Iwata never said anything that even remotely implied a "third pillar" approach. That's just people trying to manipulate an easy to understand quote about how the NX isn't mearly a simple upgrade. Which it's not. It's a part of a unified platform. It's not a simple upgrade. It's a complicated upgrade. All he was saying. Nothing, nothing at all, about a "third pillar."

He did say it wasn't meant as a replacement for Wii U or the 3DS. What you're implying is that NX is supposed to replace both of them, which it's not.