Hopefully Metroid, Animal Crossing...idk maybe a new Punch-Out. Things like that most likely. 

YES!!!!!! Even though it selling very low against its competitors, they are still giving all their power into it. I hope SONY can do it with the VITA.

Theoretically if the next Nintendo handheld (and presumably Fusion home variant) are designed with architecture similairities to the Wii U, they could I suppose share some games early on. 

I think the next 3D Mario is basically a lock for the next handheld launch window though, not Wii U. Nintendo has bigger fish to fry coming up. 

Wii U could still have a new Metroid, Diddy Kong Racing, Paper Mario, Pokken Fighters, and a few other surprises like a Mario Sports game thrown in to fill out 2016. 

To be honest that would be better than the GameCube's equivalent year (2005) where it had a big third party game in Resident Evil 4 right at the beginning of the year, but not much else of note after that. 

GameCube's 2005 (notable games) was Resident Evil 4, Star Fox Assault (not well recieved), Geist, Mario Party, DK: Jungle Beat, Fire Emblem, Battallion Wars.

Are they going to make you wizz in your pants?

this is Nintendo.

there was never a chance they were going to do that. they are extremely intelligent in terms of doing things that benefit their value and worth. Sega was desperate. when you have the IP power that Nintendo does, and are still making SOME money, then there is no need to panic. in the end thanks to the 3DS Nintendo is still quite comfortable even this generation

Helps them to continue to believe that a NES 2K may launch in Nov 2016, yes it probably will help. I see nothing inconsitent between saying that Nintendo will continue to provide strong support for Wii U, without putting a timeframe on it, and making plans to launch NES 2K at the end of 2016. Because of the very short generation interval between Wii U and NES 2K Nintendo will not announce the NES 2K too much in advance. I wouldn;t be surprised if they announced at the beginning of 2016.

But also it makes 2017 a somewhat more likely year for NES 2K. However I think Nitnendo pretty much as the NES 2K fully designed and spec'd, so that if Wii U has a terrible year this year they will be able to pull the trigger on NES 2K a year ahead of schedule without suffering any hardware faults or system glitches. 

If Nintendo expects PS4 and Xb one to have a fairly long generation, then Nintendo could potentially plan to have its 9th generation coimpletely within the time of PS4's 8th gen, and aim to launch NES 10G in the same timeframe as PS5.

If NES2K is launched at $300 in 2016, and it has more grunt than PS4bone then NES 2K could attract decent 3rd party support and lead to good sales with early Wii U adopters being happy to start making the switch, and mid gen buyers who haven;t got into the 8th gen yet deciding to skip the generation and go straight to the 9th gen Nintendo console. With a view to perhaps going back to PS/Xb in the 10th gen. As long as NES 2K can get CoD, Fifa, AC, Battlefield and Destiny 2m the potential gamers support for NES 2K could be substantial.

a Mario Galaxy title, a good Pokemon game, and Zelda is all they need to vastly improve  this systems sales performance 

That right there is what we call the Sega.

I don't think the NES 2K concept (as in another traditional high powered Nintendo console designed to compete with Sony/MS) will happen (as in ever). I think Wii U is kinda the last traditional console from Nintendo in a lot of ways. The next system will just be the handheld architecture juiced up to play games on the TV at 1080p (very cheap, microconsole IMO). Better graphics than the Wii U, sure, but not a generational leap (Nintendo's Wii U stuff looks great anyway). 

That said, people need to actually understand their history. Sega released the Sega CD in 1992, then the 32X in 1994, then *six months* later the Sega Saturn and was lackluster in support for all three platforms. 

That would be in no way, shape, or form comparable to Nintendo even if they ditched the Wii U. The Wii U at minimum will be supported as long as the original XBox, and longer than the GBA, and will have gotten all/most of the main Nintendo IP (assuming a Metroid is in development). 

Of course it's not, it only turned 2 a few months ago.

Even modern Nintendo isn't stupid enough to alienate what fans they have left by doing a Saturn and pulling the plug too soon. Plus, they still need to recoup the system's R&D costs and first year losses.

A replacement in November 2017 would be ideal, giving it a normal Nintendo console lifespan so buyers don't feel shortchanged.