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It's possible, but people do need to realize that the Wii is the outlier for Nintendo consoles. NES and SNES led their generations at 61.91 and 49.10 million respectively. That was before Playstation, Xbox, Steam, and mobile. Ever since then, they have had N64, Gamecube, Wii (the outlier), WiiU, which sold 32.93, 21.74, 101.44, and 9.2 million respectively.

The Wii was lightning in a bottle (in terms of Nintendo consoles) and should not be considered expected sales for Nintendo HW. If you look at those figures above, Wii stopped the downward trend of Nintendo consoles and it seems like the WiiU picked up where it left off. It's very possible that the WiiU will be the worst selling Nintendo console of all time.

If Nintendo has another Wii like system, it will definitely disrupt things, otherwise, I wouldn't expect it.