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

[boypita]

NX will not be released till late 2017 or even early 2018 imo.
And I think that even the 3DS will have its successor in 2018. If they start to give big exclusives to the N3DS like they did with the GBC, the DS family can still live a couple of years with great sales :)