Miyamotoo said:
Could be, but almost all rumours suggest that is hybrid in one package (handheld unit and base unit), not two separate devices that would be sold separate.
Actualy in some way he did said. This is Iwata quote from January 2014, year after he mentioned "brothers in a family of systems": “Still, I am not sure if the form factor (the size and configuration of the hardware) will be integrated. In contrast, the number of form factors might increase. Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we could face serious shortages of software on every platform. Whether we will ultimately need just one device will be determined by what consumers demand in the future, and that is not something we know at the moment."
He basically said there is a possibility that form factor will be integrated and that there is a possibility for just one device, so it's very different way of thinking from that just one year earlier, and it seems that Nintendo continued with possibility of integrated form factor aka hybrid. |
Yes, right now most rumors point to one device, but I on't think we should exclude the possibility of there being two consoles that work together. I find it hard to believe that they could go from having two devices in development (which is what it sounds like from those quotes) to having just ONE device in under two years time. At first it sounds like there will be two devices, and then in 2014 Iwata opens up to the possibility of there beng just ONE device, but by then Nintendo should have been to far gone in their designs of TWO consoles that it would be kinda hard to simply drop/integrate one of them, no? But like I said, the rumors do seem to point to ONE device.
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