The market you want are the tablet smartphone people, right. These are the people who pay nothing to 5$ majority the games they buy. And then abandoned them fast. Nintendo couldn't make a normal full game with that money. Everything would be scaled down to those cheap apps. Also, they sell 200 million tablets and or phones because they are used for other things, not just gaming. Yes, Capcom and a few others sell more expensive apps. But, they have other software comming out on other things. Nintendo is putting its eggs in one bag. There wouldn't be this tablet system and another handheld that is standard.

So, if Nintendo did this. They have to make crap games to sell for $5. This loses the loyal base they have. Which is already reduced by Wii U's poor system support. And will solely rely on this unpredictable user base. Which can just ignore a lot of what they churn out. If this idea fails. Nintendo loses both doors. There would be no loyal fanbase anymore. People would be like "Fuck Nintendo." If it works. They still lose a lot of the loyalty and then make all the talented people at Nintendo, make crapper games. Which like Kojima and Konami's shift, got fired. Nintendo could easily lose a ton of major people over this.

If there are no physical controls built in, I'm not interested. And no, having a controller for it (ala Nvidia Shield Tablet) is not a valid option. But if they do go the touchscreen route again, it's time they upgraded to capacitive going forward.

Only if its Nintendos own OS

At long last, the death of tablets! Useless things... It's kinda like a mobile, just... bigger.

I'm exaggerating of course, but I've always found tablets to be quite redundent, so this is happy news indeed. I hope Sweden have a similar development

It could be good. One thing is for sure, it needs to be cool to kids. So either a tablet that also plays Nintendo games or a handheld that offers at true tablet-like experience is a good place to start.

The Norwegian and Swedish markets are very similar so I imagine it's the same over here.

I never saw the appeal of tablets myself, I recently bought my first laptop though, it does so much more than a tablet and actually costs less, has a better screen, a lot more storage and touch interfaces are useless for proper writing imo. I just simply never understood the point of a tablet, especially when the smartphone is a thing.

Ya it always seemed like something that tried to be a best of both worlds type of device but ended up falling flat on both sides.

I still don't think they will go for a tablet.. Nintendo likes to be innovative, not follow the flow.

No. It will be a traditional handheld and will probably have a nintendo store for mobile games. That would mean it has the best of both worlds.

Probable. The Wii U controller is basically a tablet form factor with physical buttons, not sure why some Nintendo fans think that would be such a mind-blowing jump for them. It makes perfect sense.

A tablet form factor also allows for a larger battery, larger screen, and a larger form factor for thermal heat dissipation -- read: you can put a much better chipset in a tablet than you can a cramped little dinky handheld.

So if having Wii U-level graphics or better is part of their strategy (see: Fusion platform), then a tablet form factor may not only be preferable, it may be the only option.

My guess is this is spot on, but it will be something about the size of an iPad mini, which is portable enough.