I don't see how Nintendo can go another 2 years with the 3DS: it needs to be replaced in 2016. It's sales are way down in 2015 despite the New 3DS being released in the same year in North America.
Also, with the Wii U, even through its sales are poor but steady keep in mind that Nintendo is losing brand recognition with each passing year. 2015 was the first year that Nintendo didn't make the list of top 100 brands. There is basically a whole generation of kids that are growing up with smartphones and tablets who have no idea who Mario or Link is. This is an invisible problem, but it is one that is much bigger than lost profits for Nintendo. For this reason, I also believe that the Wii U needs to be replaced in 2016. It's not what us gamers want, but we should be happy that the Wii U is getting a solid 4th year with some great titles.
Nintendo has said that they want to reveal the NX close to its launch window for fear of other companies copying its innovative features. I personally believe that one such feature is cloud-based graphics processing and I don't think that Nintendo should sit on this until 2017 if they're going to reveal it in 2016: it's only a matter of time until one of the other hardware companies figure out how to do this.
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