NX will be multiple platforms, Iwata stated they want multiple form factors, maybe even more than just 2 even.

Like for example if you tell me you have a Mac ... OK, but that doesn't really tell me anything though.

Do you have an iMac? Mac mini? Macbook? Mac Pro? "Mac" is just an all-encompassing term for a hardware line. Notice how Nintendo refuses to specify the NX as a console OR handheld ... they just refer to it as a generic "game platform" ... that's another tip off right there. 

NX will likely be like that (or iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch if you wish) ... similar hardware/software repurposed into several form factors which the consumer can pick and choose from. 

The Wii U has fuck all of nearly every core Nintendo franchise. Zelda isn't the one that makes that suddenly different. It won't be skipping the Wii U in any sense. It'll still be on the Wii U, just like TP was still on the GCN and is widely considered by most to not even be a real Wii Zelda. (even though that's not true either)

There aren't "more reasons." The Wii U is already on it's way to a decline and it will be four years old by 2016. If the Wii U's still selling worse than the Vita weekly after more than two years, who seriously expects any sane company to ride that out for more than another two? It will be ripe for a hardware upgrade, considering how recordbreakingly bad it's selling after over two years on the market. The XB was dropped for less.

And considering the "Fusion" concept that is all but outright confirmed, it'll likely be both anyway.

I keep seeing this. Where did they ever specifically call the NX a platform? I've only seen it refered to as a "dedicated game system." They refered to the new program as a platform, but I don't remember anyone refering to the NX as a platform. I'm not saying you're wrong, because I agree that that will be the case, but I don't remember anyone saying the NX was a "platform."

"Game system" is a broad term too. 

The Vita is a game system. 

But so is the Playstation 4. 

Notice they don't label NX specifically as a home console or portable platform. Now why do you think that could be?  

If Nintendo has stated that they won't even start talking about the NX until 2016 what makes anyone think they are going to start selling the thing that same year, especially if it is a home console.

I'll say this, we will see NX and Zelda at next year's E3. I still think NX is that fusion thing

Yes... TP was on the GC but everyone knows that GC's primary Zelda was WW... I dont get whats so hard to see about this... If you exclude ports, both the GC and the wii will have their own Zeldas... But the wiiU won't. It will be missing a Zelda made specifically for it period. This isn't even very arguable

And yes there are... Firstly, they announced it during a mobile press conference to ensure the audience that they aren't getting out of the dedicated gaming business. Most people would be worried about Nintendo's handheld division because that is what is a) More directly competing against mobile than their console and b) The games are far more closer to mobile than on the console.

Then you have the games for the wiiU coming out vs the 3ds... The 3ds in terms of games shows very big signs of it getting a successor than the wiiU is. Yes, the console is selling like shit but so did the gamecube compared to the n64 and that didn't stop Nintendo from releasing those games and I doubt it they will start now. And its not like the software sales on the wiiU is dead since high profile games continue to sell pretty highly on the wiiU. If they release a new console, that will be a very non-Nintendo-like thing to do because Nintendo usually has fuck all in terms of game releases on the year that they are announcing a new platform for the respective division... Nintendo had SS for the wii and that was basically it before the wiiU launched and not this many games where as the 3ds has maybe 2 games at best this year

And what "Fusion" concept? Its all speculation at best... Iwata even gave two examples, one was apple and the other was Android..

"To cite a specific case, Apple is able to release smart devices with varous form factors one after another because there is one way of programming adopted by all platforms. Apple has a common platform called iOS. Another example is Android. Though there are various models, Android does not face software shortages because there is one common way of programming on the Android platform that works with various models. The point is, Nintendo platforms should be like those two examples. Whether we will ultimately need just one device will be determined by what consumers demand in the future, and that is not something we know at the moment."

No it's not, though I guess it is in reguards to whether it's a handheld or console. But it's not in the sense that it doesn't imply two different form factors based off the same platform. The iphone/ipad are part of one platform, but they would be two different systems.

Personally, I think they didn't specify because the just didn't want to yet. If the NX is just a home console and nothing else, specifying that this early on would be pretty fucking stupid. But if they called it a handheld, when it was really a home console all along, that would be a flat out lie. Same thing in the case of a handheld. If it's one or the other, specifying which one it is two years earlier when the systems are still trying to stay afloat would be pretty fucking stupid.

They still want to, you know, make money while they wait to release it.

Because the PS4 and XBO didn't come out holiday of last year.

console reveal E3, release that holiday season. Thats not crazy