VR needs a few specs requirements to have a confortable use, or else you'll feel nauseated.

You can't meet those requirements with an affordable handheld.

So VR is a big no no.

Not a bad theory.

So you're sold on a system because of an unfounded guess at one of its features? Am I being trolled here?

Unless its still low cost and can be ignored like the 3D on the 3DS, I'd be skipping my first Nintendo console.

Good shout! The rumours were out before but I didn't connect it with the NX being portable a phone/tablet like in form factor. Compared to the Playstation VR, getting VR on the NX would cost an additional $40 for a cheap headset. 

Nintendo would be the one company I trust to deliver really compelling VR experience on relatively weak hardware. It won't be a top tier but it will be convenient and novel.

Thinking about it, theirs zero reason for them not to do this other than lacking development resources because they're concerned with giving the NX core titles at launch.

I actually thought of this too, it makes perfect sense. I hate VR though.

What are these things specifically?  A screen capable of 120hertz, decent enough resolution (720p). Low latency display (the NX is the display) in this case. 

Genuinely intrigued.

Sorry, but 720p is not "a decent enough resolution" for VR gaming. Due to a much wider field of view the pixel density is much lower than the same resolution on a TV or monitor.

90 hertz low latency screen seems to be the minimum refresh.

psvr has a 1080p screen (shared across both eyes).  OR/Vive have higher resolutions (2160x1200).  even at these resolutions people say the screen door affect is noticable.  i don't think a 720p screen would be good enough.

people already complain that ps4 doesn't have enough omph to power VR.  while i don't entire agree with that VR does take a lot of omph to power, much more than non-VR since it has to must have a rocksteady high framerate or people will get sick.  as such, if NX is a tegra x1 it will mean the graphical capabilities the NX could produce for a VR application would be quite low.  maybe a mario game is simple enough graphics but there will be hard limit to what the NX can support and it probably can't recieve OR ports.

720p resolution is way too low for a good VR experience, the Samsung setup uses screens with far higher resolution on their phones, but if Nintendo uses that you are talking about an NX that's $300+.

Also the Tegra X1/X2 don't have the juice to produce great graphics for VR. The PS4 struggles with it as is, the XBox One doesn't even seem to try ... you need more than the horsepower of a portable chip to get a good VR experience. PS4 Neo and Scorpio are along the lines of what you need for a VR experience.