You never know, they may cancel all projects and go mobile.

Yeah, that would be my guess, too: November 2016 - Q1 2017 for both handheld and home console form factor with the same OS.

November or December 2016 would be best to include the Christmas shoppers, but if the home console is based on AMD's Zen-APU and they can't deliver on time, a splitted launch could be possible (handheld in November 2016, home console in Q1 2017).

All, i'm fairly certain of is that no new next-gen home console will release in 2016.

What NX is exactly and when it will come out depends obviously on what it is afterall.

But from the latest statements, its fairly obvious that nothing will come out this year.

I predict a one-stage release in late 2016. I believe NX will have both a home console and handheld variant but that they will both release at the same time and that will be at the end of this year.

2017

Ultimately it doesn't really even matter that much. Fall 2016 or spring 2017 ... no big difference.

It's not as if the Wii U is magically going to get a new Metroid and Paper Mario and Animal Crossing because the NX comes in 2017 some time.

Game development internally at Nintendo has to be focused on the

1.) The 3DS successor
2.) NX, if it's a separate home console
3.) Smartphone games
4.) Wii U/3DS

3DS successor is the most important of all of them. If that fails, then Nintendo is probably going third party and you can stop worrying about the consoles period, because without portables, Nintendo would've been third party already. 

When the 3DS launched back in 2011, mobile was already growing strong but it wasn´t such a huge monster as it is now, so the 3DS successor, whatever it is, is the first Nintendo handheld system that´ll be launched in a time where mobile has probably done the most damage to the dedicated handheld market it´ll ever do (or am I wrong?)....so, with the possible shared OS/library and Nintendo´s attempt at raising awareness for their franchises through mobile in hopes it´ll get more people to get their dedicated hardware...and I know it´s too soon to discuss it, but how likely is it that you see a good number of people who play on mobile to shell out more $$$ for another handheld, even if they enjoyed Nintendo content on their smartphones/tablets?

Exactly.  And the same goes for the Wii:  Although the "revolution" was mentioned as early as E3 2004, the console's official E3 unveiling - the name, the games and the Wiimote (seen first at TGS six months prior) - was E3 2006, with the system launching fall of the same year.

hey, snyps, thanks for the shoutout, put me in for one phase 2017 baby! FUCK YEAH

a lot of assumptions in this thread though. what makes you guys think that this thing is even some kind of fusion device? what if it isnt?