That's exactly what I was thinking, if Nintendo doesn't pull another WiiU gamepad, that should be feasible.

An APU with 12 to 16 compute cores running at higher clocks, 4GB GDDR5 plus 2GB of cheap RAM for the OS. Should be on par with the Ps4 and fit within budget as well.

That was a rumor that I doubt is true. 

Nintendo cannot fight Sony or MS head on. They need to move around them just like the Wii but then more sustained and controlled.

Nintendo should just go third party imo.
They can't produce good hardware anymore nowadays. They would make much more profit as a third party developer.

I think it'll be about 1 TFLOP using mobile-centric parts like Nvidia's next-gen Tegra.

They can't use laptop/home PC GPUs because it won't scale well to the portable, or at least not nearly as well as a natively mobile tech (tablet/phone) chip would.

1 TFLOP would allow them to have some PS4/XB1 ports, but it would still scale decently with a 5 watt portable (250 GFLOPS at 1/4th of the console) allowing them to share games between the two without too much trouble.

I don't think Nintendo generally gives a crap about broad third party support though, they know already they're not going to get it, that is MS/Sony territory now and they simply can't compete there.

It has never been about specs with nintendo, just make it strong enough so that third party studios make games for it

Even if they did would many of those games even sell? The audience for games like Call of Duty, Madden NFL, FIFA, Grand Theft Auto, Assassin's Creed, Batman, etc. etc. is not with Nintendo and they're not waiting for Nintendo, they don't care about Nintendo unless it's as a secondary console for a few Nintendo IP. 

So likely those ports would sell like 1/10-/1/20th of their PS4 + Neo/XB1 + Scorpio versions. Then the third party would say "well we tried but these games don't sell on NX, so we're pulling support". This is the predictable cycle Nintendo fans know too well by now. 

Nintendo lost that audience a long time ago unfortunately. 

If the new "gimmick" of the NX goes more the way of the Wii U than the Wii ... you may get your wish in 3-4 years. 

Either that or maaaaaybe going 2nd party for Microsoft if Microsoft offered a shit-ton of money. 

That might not be possible if they went with like intel + nvidia, or a arm+nvidia gpu.

Things like an Intel CPU and GDDR5 RAM run waaaaaaaaaay too hot to scale to a mobile. Don't see it.

It'll be like ARM CPU + Nvidia Tegra processor + LPDDR4 RAM with maybe a small pool (32-64MB) of high speed memory buffer.