No. Beyond the author's simple taste for innovation, they'd have to go third party or out of business in less ten-twenty years if they went that route.
There will be a point in the not to distant future, where a simple computer in a box game console won't be necessary. As computers and graphics cards become cheaper, as streaming games becomes a viable option, and so on. You can already play games directly through some TVs, or through a 50 dollar Rokuish device.
Sony and Microsoft are already hedging their bets with XBox focusing more on PC as a gaming platform, and Sony building PSNow. Nintendo's not really in a position to do those sorts of things. So, they have to make it so that their actual hardware offers something unique that can not be easily replicated. It's not like a company couldn't release something like the switch, but without one company being in charge of internal hardware, software, and the external hardware, it would be hard to make something that would function as smoothly and offer motion controlled gaming, handheld, and TV gaming.
Of course, Nintendo could be fighting a losing battle anyway, but they have to try and make sure that dedicated hardware is still a necessity, and part of that is building unique features directly into the hardware.
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