Yeah I have some significant doubts they can support distinct platforms like that any longer. It was only viable in the past because development resources for making games were much more managable (ie: even DS games could be made with very small teams) that they could afford to have a home console and then a "kid brother" portable. That won't work in the future IMO. 

They keep cryptically describing the NX as a "platform" and never as a singular console ... if it's a console, why keep it a mystery? Project: Reality (N64), Project: Dolphin (GCN), Revolution (Wii), Project: Cafe (Wii U) were all described as home consoles from the get go. 

Also the 3DS needs to be replaced pretty badly too, this was probably Nintendo's worst portable holiday sales in about 15+ years in the West. 

The writers for the latest Pokemon series (XY and XY&Z) participated in Pokemon Origins as writers. So far, the series is impressive with more intense battle scenes, less recycled material, and even character development.

I would like to see a Kid Icarus anime with the animation based on the short OVA Palutena's Revolting Dinner. The dialogue between Pit, Palutena, and the rest of the cast can be just as amusing as it was in Uprising.

I would like to see Fire Emblem get another crack at an anime.

Heck, I would also like to see Miyamoto do more Pikmin shorts, since they appear to be well received.

I can't wait for that new theme park Miyamoto, Nintendo, and Universal are planning and producing.

More chances of creating more awareness for their IP will serve Nintendo well in the long run as long as things are executed efficiently.

For point 1, exactly as I thought. It was a response to what Nintendo's strategy was for the future to compete against PS4 and Xbone beingthe Wii U was being outsold. He isn't just bringing up and openly talking about the console,

Point 2, also exactly. First off, I bet Reggie's first encounter with the device was at E3 *edit* 2015, along with 3rd parties. But that isn't even the point, the point is we are talking about from the time they talk about a codename of a device to when they first reveal the device. Doesn't the fact that this has already been the longest wait from codename to reveal give any hints that it was found out about a bit earlier than Nintendo expected? Now do a little research and see how long the typical wait is from reveal to release. Wii was June 2005 reveal and Nov 2006 release. Wii U was June 2011 reveal and Nov 2012 release. Is this not giving you hints either?

If the screen was 720p and you could stream it to a tv I wouldn't HATE it.

I was about to say!!!!!!!!!!!!    

HYPE indeed!!!!!! 

What? Golden Sun anime? OH YEAH!!!!!!!

jk

Its like how Sony and Microsoft has soooo many different divisions/products besides their gaming side. Nintendo just wants to make their characters and games more well known through these things.  They need to expand their business. Sooo all of these things may require hiring more employees to the job. 

Its ok, we can keep the denial train going for a while longer. I dont mind. ^^

I have a theory that "anime" may have been a mistranslation. Kimishima may have actually said "animation," which is not the same as anime as we know it in the west. I was doing some research, and if you remember the Pikmin shorts, Minamoto said that if those were successful, he would consider giving other Nintendo franchises the same treatment.

Whatever, right? Well, not quite. The company responsible for animating those shorts, Dwango Pictures, Inc., had 1.5% of their stock purchased by Nintendo at the end of 2013 at the request of the leader of that company. This is a deliberate monetary investment on Nintendo's behalf with a company with clear recourses and talent for CGI animation. And they're Japanese.

What's more, the visual style displayed in the Pikmin shorts perfectly match the sort of "Smash Bros." unified art style of Nintendo characters. I haven't found any leads, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if Dwango was also responsible for most of the Smash Bros. cutscenes in Smash 4 as well.

If this is what Kimishima was really alluding to, I think it would be a much better business move than traditional anime. As much as I adore anime, it's an extremely niche form of media in the west. Nintendo is expanding their brands to television and film as a way to expose their IP to a wider audience, and doing that with traditional anime is unnecessarily bottlenecking the reach of these shows.

The absolutely massive success of films like Frozen in Japan is proof that they like CGI animation just fine over there, so going that route would be a much more successful business move for them worldwide. Especially if all of the TV shows and films were unified under the same "smash bros" art style, they could cultivate their very own Nintendo Cinematic universe for themselves.

Just imagine a Super Mario Bros. movie in the Smash Bros. cutscene art style where Mario is saving Luigi from Bowser or something, and it has the same epic feel and soundtrack as Galaxy. Now imagine the same for a The Legend of Zelda movie. The same for a Metroid movie. And a Star Fox TV show. And a Kid Icarus show, etc. All in that Pikmin shorts/smash 4 CGI unified art style. And then they tie it all together with a Toy-Story-meets-The Avengers-like Super Smash Bros. movie. Absolutely epic.

Though even with all that said, I'd kill for a Fire Emblem "anime" show in the style of those cutscenes. They're beautiful.

EDIT: Looking more closely and comparing the two, I'm absolutely convinced now that Dwango is responsivble for most of the Smash Bros cutscenes. The Pikmin and Olimar are rendered identically.

New Yoklai Watch season confirmed?