It's crazy, I will never pay full price for a franchise I haven't tried before. So i end up buying most my games on ps4 cause they have amazing sales and I can try like 3 games for the price of one nintendo game lol. Not only that over here in Australia the WiiU pre owned section has like 2-3 titles lol either no one is buying the games or people never trade in. ps4 and x1 on the other hand have 100's of pre owned games.

But Saturn's hardware and software library aren't going to be remembered for something great. Saturn was a 2D machine at its best. That tried to do 3D games. It didn't know what it wanted to be. Wii U much like Dreamcast had a goal in mind but were placed too close to hardware that would easily overshadow it. Saturn had like a few good games on it. Dreamcast, although it didn't have many, had a much better software library than the Saturn. Off the top of my head I can name Panzer, maybe Sonic R, Grandia, Virtua Fighter 1 and 2, Burning Rangers, Bug...and that;s all I got for USA. I'm sure I could dig for more...ugh, Nights maybe. Dreamcast had Sonic Adventure 1/2, Skies of Arcadia, Phantasy Star Online, Jet Set Radio, I mean I could go on. By Wii U being dreamcast, I mean it's good hardware and good software that were easily overshadowed but offered some amazing content. Not only was Saturn overshadowed, it offered little good content.

I'd say it's even worse than the Saturn.

Just to add to this post, Aqua pointed at the latest NPD thread that from the 800k Wii U's forecast, ~700k were already in their inventory, so production has almost ended completely.

That's a matter of perception of the medium as a whole. Video game hardware will inevitably age and become outdated, but video game software does not necessarily. If you look at it that way, then it stands to reason to put a (much) higher value on games.

Some people like to complain for the sake of complaining. And if someone bought a Wii U solely for Zelda, then they should learn the lesson that they shouldn't buy the hardware before the one game they want is available because a lot of things could happen. It isn't unlike people who bought a launch PS3 in anticipation of Final Fantasy XIII and pretty much only that, only to see that the PS3 dropped to $300 from the original $600 by the time the game finally released. That's $300 being wasted, just like buying a Wii U for Zelda is when the console could have been skipped in favor of NX.

Higher resolution for video games is not a new concept. That has been done several times before.

The first quote you provided says neither Wii U or 3DS which is the same thing Iwata said. A new way to play games (a brand new concept) obviously refers to control input while "pure replacement" doesn't divert from what Iwata said before either. Kimishima is merely repeating what Iwata said. The words are slightly different because the translation isn't an official one from Nintendo.

The second quote means that the Wii brandname will be dropped. Nintendo systems have had various names, so a new Nintendo system having a different name and succeeding an old system isn't anything new either. Considering how the Wii U sold, it's no surprise that Nintendo would drop the Wii brand.

As for my sources, the already provided quotes do the job already. Your interpretation of the quotes is flawed, that's all. You are on a sales website, you know how terrible the Wii U is selling, so why would you expect that NX won't succeed the Wii U? Why would Nintendo spend additional resources on Wii U games when the system is as good as dead? NX was always going to succeed both the Wii U and 3DS since Nintendo had already talked about combining their R&D departments for home consoles and handhelds, because the technological differences weren't as pronounced as they were before, so keeping home consoles and handhelds as separate entities wouldn't make sense anymore. The benefits would also apply to game development, hence why NX was not to replace 3DS or Wii U, but rather 3DS and Wii U.

Nintendo had to find a way to support both a home console and a handheld with first party games on a more consistent basis, and when you know that, you can make the next logical step and rule out that Nintendo will support 3DS, Wii U and NX all side by side. When NX launches, the end of 3DS and Wii U will be near. Nintendo won't support three separate platforms, but only one that consists of a home console device and a handheld device. That platform is NX.

You can read up on Nintendo's Q&A sessions with investors on this website. Scroll through the newsfeed and look for "Q&A" to access the various sessions. The earliest hints at NX date back to early 2014, so a good year before it was announced. Early hints include the mention of combining R&D departments for home console and handheld, measures to improve the quantity of first party software output and the intention to redefine what a video game platform is in a good two years (that would be 2016, but alas, eventually NX got delayed). It may seem lazy that I don't point you directly to all NX-related information, but there have been a lot of Q&As over the years. Check it out if you are interested.

  I saw it and I forgot to ask how does she know it?  How is she able to know such a thing that only Nintendo's employees would know? I suspect something though, and maybe she makes a big mistake by a misapprehension !

Apropos, sales-shipments of Japan comparison,   demonstrated that there was almost no wii u stock by the end of March! Since then, wii u is selling constantly 4k and Nintendo is releasing  a splatoon wii u bundle again, in July! So, Production must have not  ended!

Insider reports, but it can be ascertained from public and semi-public information and simple conjecture. But like RolStoppable said, it's meaningless when specifically production has ended...the fact is Wii U will be no more by 2017.