If it's not a Wii U replacement, then Wii U will probably have it's worst year ever and 2017 will be a disaster!

We have Project Treasure, Zelda and SMTxFE for next year - FE for Wii U is actually coming out this year in Japan.
Last year, at E3, Nintendo announced several new games for this year: Kirby, MP 10, Devil's Third, Splatoon, Starfox, Project Giant Robot, Project Guard - and kept in secret Mario Tennis and AC Amiibo.

At least 3DS has some japanese support to compensate the lack of 1st party titles.
Wii U has Skylanders, Lego and Disney Infinity.

I still think is a portable console, is the one that makes more sense to me.

They confirmed it as a console a while ago

that's a pipe dream. there was nothing at E3 cuz they aint workin on anything! 

Tanabe and Reggie has confirmed NX is a homeconsole. Stop with this denial please.

Basically. I'm still in the Fusion camp, so homeconsole still fits with the offerings they are going to do in the hardware line.

Even releasing 2017, they would be pulling a Dreamcas since PS4 and X1 won't get a sucessor until 2019-21. And an early announcement would also kill Wii U sales badly because that would just confirm that the console will be abandoned.

There isn't really a way to release a platform without killing Wii U and/or 3DS. They tried the "3rd pillar" thing once and just killed the GBA instead of complementing it. Home console kill the U, portable kills the 3DS, Fusion kills both at once.

I love how you try to clear "misunderstanding" with unproven speculation.