Nintendo of America: "Grab a Wii U while you can"

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Guitarguy said:

http://au.ign.com/articles/2016/05/16/nintendo-president-nx-is-not-the-successor-to-the-wii-u-nor-to-the-3ds

Here you go, clear as crystal:

"The NX is neither the successor to the Wii U nor to the 3DS", said Kimishima (as translated by NeoGAF user GSR). "It's a new way of playing games, which I think will have a larger impact than the Wii U, but I don't feel it's a pure replacement for the Wii U."

 

Yes it's very clear even with this not being an official translation. The NX is not the successor to Wii U or 3DS in terms of design or branding, hence the following sentence, it's a new way to play. It isn't a Wii U 2 or 4DS, but that doesn't mean it wont replace them. The keyword in the second bold is "pure." Just like when Iwata said "simply," that means it isn't just a straight up replacement as we've come to expect but more than that, aka replacing both 3DS and (not or) Wii U. The fact that they mention both Wii U and 3DS makes that much obvious.

Also I left it out of my original post for fear of being too mean, but in addition to reading comprehension is common sense. No way would Nintendo entertain the possibility of supporting three systems at once when they can't even do two, especially when it would contradict what they've said about merging their handheld and console software output.