As for the QOL (Quality of Life)-improving platform, I made some slides which explain how Nintendo came up with this idea. These are examples of something ordinary turning into a hit product with the power of applications. In 1980, we released “GAME & WATCH,” which, I am told, was an idea that was born from watching people use calculators. “GAME & WATCH” was made by adding an application to a watch, and this is the origin of the current handheld games. In 1998, adding an application to a pedometer gave birth to a very small handheld game called “Pokémon Pikachu.” Also, and this may be still fresh in your minds, by adding an application to scales, we made “Wii Fit.” When we talk about “health,” it often involves measuring something and showing the results, but if we add an application to something, maybe this application would encourage people to continue in an enjoyable way, and we feel that we can use our strengths in this area. I mentioned that I would like to redefine the notion of entertainment as something that improves people’s QOL in enjoyable ways, and “enjoyable ways” come from the power of applications. There are many players in this market, but Nintendo is one of the few that make both hardware and software, offer and deliver propositions to people throughout the world, and make people enjoy and continue playing with them, so we think we have a great deal of possibilities ahead of us. I am not planning to announce any specific themes today, but to give you a hint, “non-wearable” does not necessarily mean it is something that will be used in the living room. I apologize for not being clear, but please allow me to leave it at that today. I will explain in detail when the time comes.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Me thinks Iwata's just trying to buy for time until he can figure out what the hell he can do to fix the WiiU. 

Stop the hating. It just means they will make products like say Wii Fit stand alone. Or Wii sports standalone. Or jogging acessories, etc.

Cmon... its not difficult to understand.

Wii U is done. Nintendo knows that even themselves, read between the lines. 

They are looking to branch out into new profit streams (QoL) and will ride this storm out in the mean time. 

His comments about future intergration of handheld/consoles basically confirms to me a future Nintendo game machine that is basically either a hybrid platform of sorts. I think Nintendo's already moved on to focus on this and the QoL thing as their new future dual pillars. 

This is most likely what is happening. I feel like Iwata said this already, as well. We all know how well their last dual pillar plan worked for them. There's some hope to be had with this. Although I'm not trying to pull anything more from this than what is being said.

Wii U is done. Nintendo knows that even themselves, read between the lines. 

They are looking to branch out into new profit streams (QoL) and will ride this storm out in the mean time. 

His comments about future intergration of handheld/consoles basically confirms to me a future Nintendo game machine that is basically either a hybrid platform of sorts. I think Nintendo's already moved on to focus on this and the QoL thing as their new future dual pillars. 

I can't think about that thing. I have no idea what this QoL platform wants to be. It will be something special but I don't know.... Maybe it's a connection between Wii U, 3DS and something about health bringing more people to the different systems? I think the Wii U era isn't over because this bad image letting a console die is even worse than supporting a not so popular one. Or just a thing about health like Wii Fit? There are so many questions in my head.

I'm exited. I wasn't one of the ones disliking motion controlls, and if there is someone to hit the homerun, it is Nintendo. Alas, they also have a tendecy to make it a foul. We'll have to wait and see, Iwata's practicly speaking in codes as of now.

It means that the educational/touch-generations software will be made available outside of games systems. Great titles such as Wii Fit, Brain Age, Art Academy, Club House Games or Picross 3D.

Nintendo is a bit late though, the activity meters craze has already started, they were all over the place at CES. But due to the CES craze I did buy WiiFitU's Fit Meter, it only costs 20eur when the cheapest available CES meter was at least double that price.

I can actually see this being a tablet of some kind. QoL can mean mental health and lifestyle too. Whatever it is, it needs both hardware and software skills to make. I think they have an innovative software idea that needs something special to work.

Could it perhaps be an extension of the Wii mote... a physical motion game that doesn't need a Wii or TV to play?