This is just conjecture. Hear me out.
We all know what happened with WebOS. Why couldn't it happen again? If Nintendo have a patent on holographic storage (which surfaced during the Wii days), why couldn't they couple that with web apps and make some kind of interoperability between handheld and console that relies on a sort of 'portable cloud' via holographic storage? It could revolutionize the consumer side of gameplay, and really streamline the data pipeline from Nintendo's side of things.
So, basically: do you think that WebOS could play a role in the new system, and, if not, why not? It would certainly explain a lot.