What Nintendo has said, is that for their next hardware system (s), they are going to unify the software development, and have it «absorb the Wii U's architecture adequately,» so that they can develop games for two or more hardware form factors at once, with one common platform to develop for. (gamersplash.com)
Picture the desktop Chrome web browser in hardware form — stripped of everything unnecessary — and you've got a pretty good handle on what Chromebooks are. (howtogeek.com)
Video games are played on consoles, the three current hardware forms being Sony's Playstation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii (though, in accordance with the tenets of technology, all three have replacements in some stage of development). (edutopia.org)