They could be royally fucked anyway, I think people don't understand that. The console division is nothing but a drag on Nintendo unless they have a miracle gimmick to sell a console with they simply can't sell consoles anymore, not in numbers that warrant having 70%+ of your dev resources tied to it. 

What unification really does is it will strengthen their main pillar that is actually doing OK ... the handheld division and basically in effect do away with the console that has been keeping resources/games away from their handheld division for ages. 

Now that handhelds are powerful enough they can just put that handheld chip into a box (like VitaTV) and let it also be their home console. But make no mistake, this will be the handheld/portable driving the bus. 

But it also means that things like Splatoon, Mario Maker, NSMBU (which is better than NSMB2), MK8 (which is better than MK7) aren't kept away from the majority of the Nintendo fanbase that owns a 3DS and doesn't own a Wii U. In the future these games will be able to sell to the widest range of Nintendo consumer. 

Even things like Bayonetta 2 maybe could sell decent if had a 40+ million userbase instead of the pathetic 7 million Wii U owners. The sooner Nintendo can break this divison of their games the better. 

I agree with the same architecture bit, I think you will have a Nintendo handheld next gen that could output around 200-300 GFLOPS, and then the "home" variant will just be that same chip with 2-3x the CPU/GPU cores and maybe double triple the RAM. The handheld games will run in 540-720p, the console games will run in 1080p maybe with a few extra effects. 

It has been a nightmare but it happened, and what's happened has happened. To say it was a wasted generation is wrong, though, because, even if just about everything that could have gone wrong went wrong, they had to finally face the issue. (And I still think this was the best time for them to have all these issues, because I don't think AAA(A) is going to sustain itself for much longer and everyone is racing towards a cliffedge. Burned bridges won't matter when all these companies go the way of THQ with their stupid budgets and sales expectations. At the rate we're going, Sony will be bankrupt and M$ will have sold or disolved the XBox brand.)

As for the HD, to be fair in their favor, they've seemingly picked it up extremely quickly and well after the initial hiccup and hurdle. You've got the Splatoon devs making a full HD game from scratch in less than two years with a small dev crew, you've got a small section of MarioEAD making Captain Toad on what's probably a 5$ budget in under a year. Streamline it more, and Fusion will have a nonstop stream of high quality, HD games from Nintendo and without having to juggle two systems.

I think Fusion will help, but even that I'm not sure is a silver bullet. Fusion will help with more Mario/Zelda/Kirby/DK/Pokemon games being released on a more timely basis yes, but I still think the ugly spectre of iOS/Android looms over Nintendo's head and is taking away 3DS customers from them every day and has completely decimated their Wii audience.

It's like a cancer, Fusion may be like the chemotherapy. Maybe it works ... maybe it doesn't but it is probably their best shot at this point. We'll have to see.

I think part of Nintendo's problem is they are very, very tied to the concept of $39.99 handheld games and $49.99-$59.99 home console games, even though this setup really only benefits Sony/MS today IMO. If they were to look into more non-traditional business models perhaps they could have more success, but I think it's too big of a leap for them to take. 

It's funny everybody always claim Nintendo sales are in the toilet ....yes the wii u has not sold as much as the wii but now are profiting on every console sold and the 3ds will sell less than the ds but is far from a failure and is profiting on every console sold ......people seem to always point out Nintendo issues and lack of sales but every home console has been profitable  Sony last generation went  from selling 154 million ps2 to 83 million ps3 ...Sonyportables PSP went from selling 80 million to 8 million Vitas ...Sony playstation brand had loses for years (2006-2011)but no ones talks about that ...I'm not mentioning this to bash Sony but it's a double standard when it comes to Nintendo ...it's sickening Nintendo has only like two of three yearly  losses in 125 years but it's always doom and gloom Nintendo isn't going anywhere anytime soon and it's funny they have the number one portable and number two console and they get all this doom and gloom ..it's crazy smh lol

Well... Having two SKU's lowers the risk of being royally fucked cause the issue of having something thats handheld is that it drastically reduces the performance capability of the console cause you always have to be considerate of the battery life and the price of the handheld cause if you are targetting the handheld space as your main focus, you have to be considerate of the competition like iphones/itouch which most people can get for $200sh (with contract for iphones). But the issue comes in when trying to compete with the ps5/x2 cause due to they not being portable, they aren't as constraint on performance since there isn't a battery/power bottleneck so it will be severly underpowered to those consoles just like how the latest phones are right now compared to ps4/x1.

On top of that, there are also development issues cause x86 is expensive for mobile platforms and sucks power harder then hookers sucking ur d and I think the developers pretty much made it clear that they want x86 and nothing else since its such an easy thing to develop for so I doubt Nintendo wants to go for Arm if they want to be developer friendly but if they go Arm, well, then we have the same issues as the wiiU once again with third party not caring.

I just think there is no real harm on making two SKUs... Sure, the wiiU is not doing very well and the 3ds is doing really great but the wii did fantastic and so did the DS. There are too many risky factors in going into one SKU imo, specially with the large performance difference it will have against the competition from the console front as well as many other factors that I have said

Sure, there will be games that not all fans get to play but oh well, thats how it has been with every generation in every company and its not that much of a bad of a thing

It should be noted that the 3DS refresh is likely going to push profits per console much, much higher than before despite the improved hardware and 3D. The innards of the console are incredibly cheap now, and they'll make a killing off the faceplates.

I can't wait for 2015, I'm going to finally pick up a Wiiu, just waiting for a good few games that I want.

I disagree with this. After playing WWHD and going back to the original... I couldn't believe how poor the original looked.  I don't think it has aged as good as most people think it has. WWHD is one of the best looking games I've ever played, I wish TP would get the same treatment!

Wii Sony or Microsoft fix their output? Obviously not.

One company can't do it alone that why 3rd parties are important. That is the difference between Nintendo and the other two.

But TP was a launch title, it didn't have 100 mill users to sell it with. Wind Waker was supposed to move units for the GC but failed.

WW is one of the least popular Zelda's because at the time Nintendo lied to us. They said their next generation Zelda was going to look like this:

But instead we got Wind Waker. It looks like a damn Kiddie game to this day! Lots of Zelda fans felt this was a smack to the face (including me). Even though Wind Waker was and still is a great game, I would say it's still on the bottom in terms of Zelda games. I finished it and I don't really remember it much besides it's fantastic combat system and final battle. Many of my friends that had OOT reserved a copy of WW and never picked it up... It was like 2 people out of 7 ratio in my group. It's still the least selling Zelda game that premiered first on any console (Skyward Sword and Majora's Mask were sequels and weren't the first on the Wii and N64 respectively, so I didn't include them. Plus they came out when both cycles of their consoles were at it's end).

TP was one of the reasons why people bought a Wii initially. Nobody was lining up to buy a GC for WW. Hell nobody is still lining up to buy a Wii U for WW 12 years later. Even though it did boost up sales a bit last year, but people didn't feel like its a "must have" or a"console buyer". Plus, all my friends that bought Ocarina of Time bought a Wii JUST TO PLAY TP!! ALL of them!! That's because it finally looked like that game above!!! They all loved it too! Some are still telling me to play it cause I bought it at release date and never played it!

If you ever see a remake of TP and SS, I guarantee they'll sell more. Then you will see a difference. We would love to be in a world where people don't pay attention to silly things like "this game looks kiddie" and just pay attention to the gameplay, but that's not how things work.