2019.
None of the three will kill their console too early if it's profitable, because developing a new console, particularly a home console, is expensive, and killing the previous one too early may prevent it from recouping the investments. The only one killing its own early was MS with the first XB, because a clumsily accepted one-sided deal with NVidia made it bleed money with no hope of ever being able to price XB competitively and at the same time turning it profitable within acceptable times. Ninty, that was ready to kill DS early and launch 3DS to avoid a possible PSV head start on portables, never did the same on home consoles, GC had low sales, but it was profitable, so it was killed as soon as it reached what was back then considered the minimum reasonable life as maistream model for a console, five years, but not earlier.
So if neither Wii U nor XBOne bleed money, we could see Wii V and XBwo respectively in 2018 and 2019, not sooner.
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