| Guitarguy said:
LOL really? Nintendo HAVE entertained this in the past, so they have set a precedent which trumps "common sense".
"[It] will enable fun and movement not seen before. I expect it to become a third pillar, next to GameCube and Game Boy."
-Satoru Iwata, Gamasutra (January 07, 2004)
http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=515
You stated Nintendo never said the NX won't be a replacement to the Wii U, I showed you they did actually say it and then you went into semantics and ambiguity of the word "pure". Well damn, I guess the Wii was not a 'pure' replacement for the Gamecube because it had motion controls and was a 'new way to play'. Much like the N64 had an analog stick compared to the SNES's D-pad. You even mention difference design and branding being factors in a console/handheld not being a replacement. Well I guess the Xbox One is not a replacement to the Xbox 360, well I guess the Gamecube was not a replacement for the N64, or the Genesis to the Master System, or the Vita to the PSP...
I also don't want to sound mean, you sound pretty cool to me, but I do think the explanation is quite evident.
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A quote from 2004, yeah that's not relevant. Game development has become far more difficult and costly since then.
No they did not actually say it. "It's not a replacement" and "it's not a pure replacement" mean two different things. Yes that one word does make all the difference, and no there's nothing ambiguous about it, we all know what pure means. To make it easier for you to comprehend replace pure with only/100%/full/complete, and as an example, when you kill someone in Splatoon you aren't purely killing them but also spreading ink.
