I think both sides are right on this. They're holding out at this rate and keeping quiet about it standing their ground and just running the PR re-run about stuff while doing a fade with the Amiibo stuff. One thing most people don't ever bring up is something I've been saying over a year now and Nintendo around E3 finally said themselves which got me thinking I'm not that far off the mark. Going forward now they're an one internal entity and just a year ago they ran like two companies split for console and handheld. They merged them after a years worth of horrid failures and losses even the 3DS couldn't prop up due to the WiiU tanking which sucks. I was saying next go around since they refuse to do what third parties want in a system to get their support and because they like to stand out and play the unique card, they need to just take the merger to the next logical step.

All in one device. Think of like the Neo-Geo X. You have the entire system in an expensive handheld, and then you have a dock with an HDMI cable and controllers that go with it for multiple players, yet you can undock the console and keep it going. The WiiU in essence is kind of just that already with their off-TV play which all but an extreme few games support because no one wants to uniquely use the tablet for play like ZombiU did. Think if they could do a $300 all in one box that you can carry anywhere, then when you want, toss into a dock and play on your big old TV at home. The system could have pretty beefy capabilities given what the most top of the line tablets do these days. Since they seem to still be asininely resistant to having a touch panel from the 21st century like on Android and Apple devices they got the cost down there a lot, so they'd have more room for the CPU/GPU, ram and the rest and with how relatively cheap larger sized mini cards (think 3DS) are you could get a lot of game into such a little thing. They'd have just one source of revenue and they downright own and still own the home dedicated gaming device portable market. Third parties rush enough to make games for their handheld and they do get good dough out of it for a minimal cost versus what console games for and we've seen the general quality the 3DS can push.