Wii sales were declining for a long time. That system didn't have another 20 million year in the tank, not even close, they declined significantly every year even despite releasing NSMB Wii, Wii Sports Resort, Mario Galaxy 2, etc. etc.
The DS may be could've held for another year but ultimately would've had a reckoning coming against the rising tide of the smartphone gaming market. Once that happened, that style of portable was going to have problems. The Switch addressed this by making a higher end portable system that had games in scope comparable to home consoles, but if Nintendo had continued making DS type systems, likely a third DS sells even worse than the 3DS.
You have to give the consumer a lot more than that these days when they can get simple/ease to play/bite size experiences for free on their phone, you have to offer a hell of a lot more today. Audiences are not some static entity whereby once you have one kind of hit, nothing ever changes and you can just continue on with that indefinitely.
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