Honestly I think this whole notion of a merger of a portable and handheld console is BS. Jose Otero is pretty much dead on, Nintendo has always been a very cost efficient company. The consoles that people consider failures sales wise like N64, GameCube have been profitable for Nintendo even though not selling many units. The tech that has to be inside this supposed "Nintendo Fusion" product is not going to be cheap.

Free form lcd screen case with a disk slot integrated. Display touch keys and change skins on the fly ;)

The Wii U, won "best looking" console back when PS4/XB1 came out.

It looks great under my TV.

It was a quote that Iwata made in an article a long time ago, so it might be a bit difficult to track down.
If I find it, I'll post it here...

The gamepad does have an expansion port, maybe the NX is a way to connect gamepad to console over a network in the same way the Vita can with PS3/4.
Either that or I've been thinking that the NX could be a 'console' in the same way that the Xperia Play was, a mobile device with it own dedicated game store supplied by Nintendo.

Ironically, maybe, Shigeru Miyamoto said in an interview on this very site that tthe Wii U is in fact upradable. Ever since Nintendo merged their handheld and home console divisions I conjectured that next generation there would be a base unit (for game download's and memory) connected a much sleeker Wii U gamepad device by cloud and internet that could go anywhere in the world. I've said here before that I think Nintendo learned something during Wii U developmen to make this happen. I also have said I believe that Nintendo is going to go to war with smart phones calling that business the final fronteir! I have also said that when you talk about Nintendo on smart phones (smart devices) you talk about millions but when you talk about Nintendo on their own smart devices you're talking billions! Some kid or guy or whatever vehemently disagreed with me but why else would Nintendo merge their two departments. I think we're startin to see the future f Nintendo! Where does Nintendo make their money more hand helds or home consoles?

no the fx chip was a success.... star fox, pilotwings, mariokart.... Nope nintendo did addon tech justice. Heck they still support over 6 different controllers in some games.

People fear the add on idea but a console system that caters it's hardware to the gamer would be very useful if they kept both the 3ds and wiiu around also.

It would be nice if the 3rd pillar was actually their premium brand at a good price. This seems to be the last thing nintendo is missing. Many younger gamers don't remember the nintendo now you are playing with power and neither do they believe that right now.

Every one still sells to the public based on power right now even apple.

The truth is the NX could be many things right now because I'm sure nintendo is trying a lot of different ideas.

The response has been good from the dena deal and nx. the wiiu has some great games but the marketing has been derailed and neglected. Now we are starting to see why. The merging of the r and d group and a possible unifying engine, os and api would be very cool.

If nintendo goes the power route, then amd new gpus would be a great place to start. Amd also love arm chips, so does nintendo. AMD are about to merge all of their chips also.

GPU Cores / Shaders 4096
Memory 8GB Stacked HBM
Total Memory Bandwidth 640GB/S
Compute Performance 8.5TFLOP

This is the max that they could offer. If the wiiu is the affordable console then this could be the premium then you could put what ever you want in it just like the PS3 did minus the bad gpu.

So far nintendo has proven to make some pretty efficient low power consoles but I think they may want to go big this time just to dabble in that territory.

What would be interesting is then people could choose. Do you support traditional nintendo or super nintendo. It would be the nes verses the snes!

N64 DD

Yes, SHOWN is not RELEASED. They have also heavily hinted that WiiU will be supported with NEW games all through next year and into 2017. NX won't be out until 2017/2018 the latest. Also Nintendo normally will take a year to really promote their new system so if they show it in 2016 then 2017 will be the minimum release year. See how it's rumored to be a marriage of the home console and mobile device it could take longer to promote and get people understanding what this is and why. Personally, I'd love it if it was like the WiiU but I could take it on the go like the 3DS.