traditional meaning - game 'n watch?

handhelds evolved, in Nintendo's part. from Gameboy to 3Ds. The last one has a 3D so what is a traditional handheld to begin with. Just a normal 6 button with select, start, then a bumped screen resolution and power?

That why Nintendo talked so much about merging they handheld and home console teams, same architecture and same platform. Also Wii U is their first HD console, so they had problems with developing first HD games and NX will be probably have much more simple arhitecture (ARM or x86 instead of PPC cpu) than Wii U.

NX will start a family of systems that are comparable enough for easy porting of games. A handheld first would make sense.

I would be disappointed if there was only a handheld, but I guess I could live with it. I like having both a Nintendo home console and handheld though.

It'd make a higher degree of sense as less people would feel "betrayed" from their 3DS as it had a decent lifecycle to begin with.

That said, I'd definitely buy the NX in due time if it was a handheld.

I think Nintendo is moving a lot of their handheld gaming to mobile devices. I think NX will be a home console, with a possible handheld version to follow and possible Nintendoized versions of smartphones and tablets to come with added gaming features and possible buttons.

I also think it's quite possible that NX is Wii U like, but with a gamepad that can truly act as a handheld. I don't think NX is a true traditional handheld under any circumstance, however.

It could just as well be that Nintendo's seen the WiiU ship sinking for a long time and has transitioned dev tools and resources to a new platform for at least the last year.

The fact we know close to nothing about what Retro Studios and EAD have in flight for 2016-2017 is really interesting.

WiiU 3rd party support could actually be lacking for this reason also : developers are already spending more time learning about the NX capabilities than bother with the WiiU at all.

Nintendo fans better hope it's a handheld (and I'm confident it really is).
if they decide to pull the plug on the wii u after 3 years... it will be a bloodbath

How so?

"We’ve also said publicly that we are already hard at work on our next home console and that’s another element we’ll be talking about much later."

... Can't you see it? He gave us clear information on the NX. It's obviously a fusion device. We even know the specs from that statement. "Hard at work" That means it's already done. It releases next month, actually. "Much later" Yeah, I'll nit pick that and say he's lying, on the only part that makes me look bad. (Oh, and way before the NX, Nintendo already said they are working on another console. So how do we know what Reggie's talking about?)

*Slarvax is frustrated*