In the past, iwata said that they don't believe cloud gaming was the future, but that they will keep a eye on it. Most of us though that this would mean that nintendo would only watch everyone embrace, doing their own thing, as usual. Besides, the laughable network infrasctruture that nintendo showed us(again) this past christmas made clear that they are not prepared for a huge internet demanding service, like cloud gaming is.

Anyway, there is some other points to be considered. First, after the christmas disater, they started to look for a it professional to perform task's like "Optimizes systems design across technology areas for future flexibility, performance, multi-tier behaviors, capacity, and scalability."(https://nintendo.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobdetail.ftl?job=13000000C5). Ok, just one guy to avoid another extended down time in eshop, but you must remenber that took one Dan Aldeman to change what nintendo was for indies.

Second, nintendo is more than happy about the sucess of their digital offers, aways showing a grow near to 100% every quarter, and they are actually promoting it more and more, with the release of digital cards on retail and TV ads aimed exclusivily to talk about digital content.

Third, the European Nintendo EAD played with the idea on the past of work with the cloud gaming: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-NERD/NERD/9-NERD-s-Goals-and-Dreams/9-NERD-s-Goals-and-Dreams-759323.html So basically they would only need research a stream technology. Oh wait! They areadly have it! They put it on wiiu remenber? To this day, neither vita or nvidia shield manage to do a better job.

So they have the thecnology, but they don't have the structure. Besides, would be easier to get developers to work on the cloud, on the power is easier to scale. I'm not saying that in the next year they will make a announcment reagarding this, i'm just saying that maybe they get there before this generation is over.

It's not a easy task say what nintendo will do next, but this increase their chances of doing it. And you, what do you think? Do you think that they will do soon, later, or never?

What type of cloud are we talking about?

I don't why what you're implying OP, but skyward sword already came out

I think microsoft wouldn't say no to money to rent part of azure

You just won an internet

i don't think nintendo has the technical competence to create and manage a cloud. not that they couldn't develop it but until nintendo changes their culture of relying on low-cost, "withered" technology i just don't see it happening. they join the cloud space when it's 5 years late just like with everything else.

They still have a long way to go with their online service before they can start thinking about cloud gaming. They're a good generation behind the PS4/XBO when it comes to online.

They don't have the infrastructure for it. It will be at least another 10 years, if ever.

Is there anything really magical about cloud tech though? They have the money to invest in it if they really want to, I question though if there's a real desire to push this on their part. That's the main issue I think. 

They were surprisingly fast moving in allowing every Wii U game to be available in digital download from day 1 for example ... with Nintendo I think the question always is whether or not a certain move is profitable for them and easy for the consumer to use (read: easy enough for kids to use).

Of course.. They have tons of functional Lakitus.. The cloud with the highest quality  you will ever find..