However, in announcing the QOL strategy back in January, Iwata said that Nintendo would employ a «leapfrog strategy,» bypassing mobile phones and wearable tech to
develop standalone devices.
Bundled Android Wear support was scrapped not long after Google managed to
develop a solution that allows it to bring one of the main features of Android Wear 2.0 to
devices that don't support its latest wearable platform, having recently debuted
standalone app support for pre-Android Wear 2.0 gadgets.