Nintendo didn't really have a choice but to go the hybrid route. I said it like a year before the thing was unveiled.
A "traditional" Nintendo console has no place in the modern market unfortunately. They have locked themselves out of that market (which they largely created) by making a lot of stupid mistakes over a period of 20 straight years and that's allowed Sony/MS to basically lock up the modern console audience full stop.
The only way a new Nintendo home-only console would work is if they had an earth shattering gimmick, like a Wiimote, and they don't from the looks of it.
They had to basically merge their sinking console division into their still viable portable division and let the portable aspect be the "hook" of the platform. There was no other choice here.
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