Wyrdness said:
Combination of things from some rumours to the current situation to even patents. Recent rumour said the portable device with the console everyone has been reporting is barebones so can't really function as a portable it's more designed for the console's concept, interface and gimmick. The claims are that the platform in March is not replacing 3DS and that a dedicated HH is on the way for that which is backed up by Nintendo's actions in which 3DS is getting continued support throughout 2017 which wouldn't happen as Nintendo drops support for platforms when something will replace them. This suggest Wii U is the main target of being replaced with the claims that no more shipments are being made and the stoppage of support. If anything so rumours may have mistaken it for a hybrid, one of the patents has a platform with a gamepad like device which would match the rumours vaguely. |
So they're (in effect) getting out of the handheld business.
Look at their handheld sales totals for the last three generations versus their console sales and ask yourself if that really makes any sense whatsoever.
A Nintendo "console" doesn't mean "super duper power machine!" either. The last two Nintendo consoles used AMD chips too. You tell me where they stacked up to the Playstation or XBox.
