Eurogamer: Nintendo NX is a portable console with detachable controllers (It also connects to your TV, and runs cartridges)

[Tlozjb]

Einsam_Delphin said:

Tlozjb said:

Interviewer: "It seems more to me that the NX will have an effect on the Wii U due to the fact that both will be consoles."

Kimishima: "The NX is neither the successor to the Wii U nor to the 3DS. 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."

http://nintendoeverything.com/kimishima-comments-on-nintendo-movies-mobile-nx/

While he does suggest the hybrid idea, but he also pretty much says that whatever it is, it will be primarily be a home console since he doesn't feel it will be a pure replacement for the Wii U, it will not be a successor to Wii U or 3DS, but it will be a home console, but also not a pure replacement to Wii U.  So by Kimishima's words we can get:

- Hybrid concept

- Primarily a home console.

 

No where is the word primarily used. Not a pure Wii U replacement =/= primarily a home console. As explained, it doesn't make any sense for the hybrid to technically be a home console that can be played on the go rather than a handheld that can played on your TV. The Wii U is just mentioned more in their PR speaks because that console is dead already while the 3DS is still selling so they probably don't want people thinking it's getting replaced yet.

He is clearly talking about a home console, or in the case of looking at the rumor, a primarily home console hybrid.  He doensn't try to dismiss the idea of NX being a home console, he just says it isn't the successor to the Wii U, therefore not a "Wii 3", but it is clear that it is primarily a home console, but because of the hybrid concept, not a "pure replacement for the Wii U"