Rumor or Nonsense: Nintendo's next generation console and handheld: Fusion Terminal and Fusion DS

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If Nintendo puts their IPs on mobile it effective ends their hardware business. They won't do that.

I agree.

Nintendo is in an incredibly good & strong position right now, compared to Sega's position a year after the Dreamcast had launched in the west.
Nintendo made tons of money from the DS / Wii era and although the Wii U is a failure, Nintendo is still has the 3DS which after a slow start, has become very successful, where PlayStation Vita has not.


The DS sold like 155 million worldwide and that's with a competitor (Sony PSP) that sold roughly 80 million worldwide as of last year.
Sony's PSP was the only non-Nintendo dedicated handheld game system that was successful, selling tens of millions of units, and yet, Nintendo still managed to completely outsell PSP with the DS.

This time, Sony's Playstation Vita is going nowhere fast, Nintendo will have the dedicated handheld market to themselves. Even with the rise of games on mobile devices.
It would be terrible if Nintendo put their IP on mobiles when the 3DS is still in its prime and making money for Nintendo, their main source of income at present.

Being "homeless", meaning not having your own hardware platform, could very well end up being an awful thing for Nintendo, since they would not control the platform (phones & tablets).


As for Wii U, Nintendo will have to make it hang on, through all of 2015. Nintendo's next home console won't be out until the end of 2016 at the very soonest.
It's not as if Nintendo has a new console waiting in the wings to launch this year, or 2015.

There is still Hyrule Warriors (a collaboration between Nintendo & Tecmo, a game based on Tecmo / Koei's Dynasty Warriors series) coming out sometime this year in 2014.
Then the next main installment of Legend of Zelda for Wii U most likely in 2015. Iwata said in the last Nintendo Direct that Hyrule Warrors is *not* the next main Zelda game for Wii U.


Now don't quote me on this, but I believe I read somewhere that EAD Tokyo is working on the true successor to Mario Galaxy, which was not the recently released Super Mario 3D World.

Whatever that Mario game might be (and I *hope* it's what I would want & have imagined for a potential "Super Mario Universe" ) that game, if it hasn't already, should be re-targeted for the next console
(in late 2016 or 2017) and it must be a day one launch game with the next home console.

Nintendo did not have a 3D Mario game for the launch of GameCube in fall 2001, Sunshine was almost a year later in2002. Or for Wii in 2006, Galaxy was August or Sept 2007.
Or Wii U in 2012, 3D World was late 2013, just a few months ago.

Nintendo hasn't had a main 3D Mario game for a new console launch since 1996 with Super Mario 64 on Nintendo 64.
The main Mario game prior to that, for a new console launch, was Super Mario World on the Super Famicom in December 1990 and SNES in 1991.

So that has to change, along with other things.