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Soundwave on 12 January 2017
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Deintegration of Nintendo hardware I don't think is ever going to happen again.

Think about it.

Even if Switch is only a moderate success/lukewarm performer, even in 4 years, mobile chips that are 3x more powerful than the Switch (so 400 GFLOPS portable; 1 TFLOP "docked") will be cheap (10nm Tegra X4 lets say w/12GB RAM). 

There's no reason to not allow a portable to have a video output going forward especially when it can display relatively complex 3D visuals.

Graphically just about any mobile chip is going to allow Nintendo to make a very complex 3D game with a high level of visual effects or realism (which ever they chose).

There's no reason to have two separate hardware lines technically ... in the past, sure it was necessary because Nintendo portables were not suitable to provide the hardware for all the games Nintendo wanted to make. For example, of course there's no way in hell Super Mario 64 was running on a Game Boy Color.

But on mobile chips now, you can realistically make any Nintendo IP ... 3D Zelda, 3D Mario, Splatoon, etc. and it'll look decent, and it'll only look better and better as mobile chips continue to improve.

As such there's no reason to have two hardware lines ever again, what you might see are legacy system releases like NES Mini, SNES Mini, maybe some type of Game Boy Retro, etc. etc.