I don't really get how people are having trouble looking at the detachable parts tbh, just pick up a gamepad and picture the sides where the buttons are coming off that's all. The will probably be a dummy atachment for the two parts to connect to for when not attached to the screen so it can feel like a traditional controller in your hands.

What if they have partnered with a mobile maker. They've done it with Nokia in the past! 

the only place for a handheld in my life is on the train on my way to/from work.  if this cannot fit in my pocket than i personally have no use for it.

too big to be portable, in far too many ways undesireable as a home console.

if this is nintendo's future than i'm switching to smartphone gaming once i run out of backlog for my vita.

So essentially we have a Wii U 2, but with all the processing contained in the gamepad and just a docking station (Wi Fi dongle?) connected to a TV/Monitor. If it has a docking station, then you lack the dual screen functionality of Wii U, so a Wifi dongle as the connection to the TV would be better. Though if you have a docking station, then you can add some processing power into the docking station to provide for improved performance for TV/monitor play.

We are a house that has traditionally had one home console and at least one handheld (my sons have owned PSP and DS/3DS). If the price is right NX is certainly on the cards to fit our handheld niche, which is certainly something that Wii or Wii U were never in a position to do. Hence if NX is effectively a handheld that doubles as a home console it has a decent chance of finding its way into our house where Wii and Wii U had no chance.

So possible +1 here.

That's fine but the statistics show you are in a very small minority. 

Sony shipped 13 million Vitas give or take in about 4 years. 

There were 205 million tablets shipped last year alone. 

Clearly in form factor terms, people are more than willing to buy a larger form factor device, it just has to be a smart device. 

Even the 3DS side, the more pocket friendly regular sized 3DS sells worse than the bigger XL model. 

People want their bigger screens. 

Beyond that a device limited to pocket size would also be extremely limited in its horsepower. You would have something probably worse than the Wii U in terms of graphics, whereas a tablet/Wii U gamepad size form factor can probably get you into even PS4/XB1 port territory (at a lowered resolution). 

Anyone remember that patent a while back that showed what looked like a smart phone device? The screen in the second mock up image resembles the example image of the device in the patent.

I guess it's only down from this mock up on.

I have a feeling it won't be that sleek.

I must say I really like this color scheme.

I think Nintendo's big task with this, if the design is indeed similar to this is to find a local 2-player game that is a shit-ton of fun to play with others and invites people to gather around.

And no, not Wii Sports 4 or whatever, something new.