Of course it can. Why would they not? The Wii U has just barely moved at least 10 million units of hardware as of now. Why continue to ride this out for another two more years? Makes no sense. The hardware is just not moving units and the games that are releasing are just appealing to the Nintendo base that is already there, not to gamers who do not have a Wii U. The Xbox was replaced after four years and its successor sold 80+. Hardly a failure by any means. I know why people are using Sega as a comparison point, but Nintendo is not Sega. Sega did not have a successful handheld. Sega's IPs were not and are not as valuable as Nintendo's property, regardless of how eccentric and experimental they were (and Sega was far more experimental than Nintendo back in the 90s).
Four years is not that early. It's been done before. It has succeeded and it has failed. It's a risk Nintendo can take, as they have nothing to lose with the Wii U's relative failure compared to past consoles.
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