I acknowledged that but 3DS is not selling bad because XB1 is selling less is stupid logic. XB1 sold like 50,000 units? Somebodies proud 3DS beat that!?

In that case, the PS3 didn't sell as well as the PS2, but do you call 83M (6th best selling system, all time) bad? DS sold 154M, yes, but that was the "PS2 of handhelds", so that's an extremely high standard to be held against. And the GBA had no real competition (N-GAGE? Neo-Geo? Tapwave? All of these bombed completely) so even holding it up to that standard may be a little unfair.

PS Vita compared to PSP? That's bad. WiiU compared to Wii? That's bad. But at 43M in year 3 (DS was at 54M when it was 3 years old), I wouldn't consider that "bad".

btw, I'm not amongst the people that say "X is selling well because Y is selling less". It was just a gripe I had with some user sentiment on this site and the 3DS was an example to bring it up. A lot of people say XBone isn't selling bad, it's just not selling as good as PS4, yet we have people saying the 3DS is doing bad, while selling higher than a system that's "not selling bad"

I brought up the Wii because in the past you asked me what Nintendo could have done to avoid the Wii U disaster. Back then you pitched the same line of thinking as you just did in this thread for an alternate DS successor. - "No idea what they could have done better, was it even possible to do anything differently?"

As for point 3, that refers to new IPs. Something like Brain Training and Nintendogs were on the DS (new IPs), but not what Brain Training and Nintendogs are on the 3DS (sequels).

As of late I've noticed many people shifting focus to the "Battle of the Big Three Home Consoles", but there's a problem brewing in the Handheld's case, seemingly under most people's noses. 

The 3DS has fallen from it's "glory" days, and fast. There was a time when it did around ~120k weekly, a healthy number. However, now it's yet to even find a baseline; falling from ~85k to ~76k quite quickly with no stop in sight. This is not good at all and paints an ugly picture for the future of the depressing state of the little Handheld that could. 

What's the problem here? I largely blame it on Nintendo's focus on the Wii U, a console that's future is most definitely set in stone already. (And it's not the best future.) Instead of helping the 3DS continue with healthy sales and generate a healthy profit they instead look to try and save an already slippery slope. The 3DS can have a good road ahead of it, but no one wants to see to it. Instead we cover our eyes and pretend that the terrible 3DS sales are just "okay" or "good enough."

We all need to take a look at the situation the 3DS is in and take off the blinders. Sure, it's not as bad as the Vita, but we shouldn't even be using that as a scale for how "good" the 3DS is doing in the first place. What has happened, in your opinion? What can Nintendo do to stop it, because there is a problem here.