I don't think it's possible for Nintendo to steal people away from Sony or Microsoft as their main console but many of these gamers by both systems. They need to become the 1st choice as a 2nd console to have any chance here.  But to do this they need to provide an exciting experience which is exclusive to to thier platform.  If NX is anything more than a hybrid console I'd love to know what they are planning. Right now I don't see anything innovative from a controller standpoint but i guess we'll have to wait until next year to find out.  Even though Oculus Rift and Morpheus are due out soon the only thing that could really surprise gamers is if it was an entire console based around some sort of new visual experience.  Morpheas and Oculus rift are 10 years from becoming mainstream. Maybe Nintendo has something less ambitious but affordable which can go mainstream next year.

But this time, PS4 and X1 are already low-end PC hardware.

Oh! Thats really good! Then i dont know why so much people want Nintendo to go third party, or in the smart phone market when they are making tonnes of money. 

Hey, I agree with you. (Though I went into total regression after the E3 for a bit, admittedly. Then I looked at the bigger picture.)

(And as a large share holder, its in my better interest for you to be right. :P Give me a few decades and I'll worm my way onto the board!)

Nintendo doesn't need high-end hardware or third-party support to produce a successful console. They just need a more consistent development/release cycle that includes new IPs and revivals... not just the same 2d mario, mario kart, super smash every generation.

Nobody cares about High-End tech anymore and that's why PS4 and X1 also aren't mindblowingly powerful. We have reached graphics that are just good enough. They are not limitating games anymore in any possible way. A developer today can do anything he can think of in a game. So the problem isn't hardware anymore, it's just imagination. You need the right ideas. Designers will do the good looking, but even for that, you don't need a supercomputer anymore.

The only people who really care about physically correct hairs on the balls of their character or some stupid reflection at a place nobody is ever looking at, are those Master Race PC people, as they like to call themselves. If you have fun with that, fine by me. But I really don't care anymore.

If what they are doing is creating a same architecture between handheld and console for every developer to find it even easier to develop for both of them then it makes a lot of sense, if that is what this thing is really about, no way to know for sure until it is finally unvield.

I don't see much future to those VR devices, but maybe I'm wrong and everyone loves it, who knows? I made a thread some weeks ago about Nintendo joining the VR movement and Nintendo fans in here didn't like the idea so I don't know how well this approach would be taken by Nintendo fans.

If by "one massive library" you mean both handheld and console sharing the same games then we will have to see how well that would go for them if that is what they have in mind. Maybe it will just mean that whoever prefers handhelds will go for that platform and whoever likes  to play at home will go for console. I don't see this approach doing much to make a difference for Nintendo's platforms sales. I think Nintendo should keep making exclusive games to their handhelds and consoles, that way Nintendo fans will have to buy both to enjoy the games they love.

I think what can make the difference next time for Nintendo is to make software and/or input device that can attract more people, like the WiiMote did.

If a new HH is coming out, is it worth me picking up a N3DS this weekend?

Actually thats not correct.  People will be interested in the NX if it offer something different and better than the PS4 or X1.  I rather Big N take risk and do their own thing then go into the hardware war and just be another one of the crowd.  a decent price with innovative tech that will get my money since I love Nintendo games.

The NX had better be as cheap and compelling as the original Wii or else I wont touch it. I'll also wait for a year (or two) to see how they handle droughts.