The whole Wii U being discontinued thing is a false flag. Even if Nintendo wanted to do that, they are such a slow moving company that it would take well into 2016 for them to have a replacement platform in the way you guys are thinking.
Which would give the Wii U a longer lifespan than the far more successful GBA and not all that dissimilar to most Nintendo home consoles (lets be honest too, Nintendo stopped supporting the GameCube after 2005, its 4th year).
Most likely what I think Nintendo is working on is a new portable platform that is powerful enough and designed to allow for ports of Wii U games. This is where they will re-release a lot of Wii U games like Pikmin 3, MK8, etc. to make extra profit on those games IMO.
That new platform will probably be a hybrid one that allows for games to also be played on the TV when at home.
If the QOL pillar takes off for Nintendo, honestly I think they are probably done with dedicated home consoles as a whole. They will have a hybrid portable with TV output platform for games and then QOL stuff for seniors/soccer moms and that will be their 1-2 business punch.
