If the NX doesn't come out in 2016, where will the "Nintendo-like" profits come from?

[MoHasanie]

Soundwave said:

MoHasanie said:
The Wii U and 3DS are sold at profit now. And Amiibo's are very profitable.

Unfortunately it's a declining profit pool, because 3DS is receding, the 7 million or so 3DS shipments this year represents Nintendo's lowest handheld shipment in almost 20 years and that decline will get even worse next year. 

Wii U is really not gaining any real momentum at all, it's stuck its mediocre 3 mill/year shipment pattern which is very bad also. So they can't count on Wii U to make up the slack either, it's a Mario Kart player stuck in the mud spinning his/her wheels. 

For Nintendo to be healthy and strong they need to be shipping in the range of 20+ million hardware units a year, this was the norm even in the GBA-GCN era, for them to be scraping by at only 10-11 combined handheld + console shipments a year is getting into very low territory. 

That's to say nothing of software, when you have hardware selling this poorly, software sales suffer. Yes, Splatoon is doing alright on the Wii U, but on a healthier platform it would be selling double or triple that easily. 

I agree but there's nothing Nintendo can do about it. Of course Nintendo wants them to sell better but their consoles have reached the end of their lives.