My comment didn't mention sale amount. The Wii U sold SLOWER than the Dreamcast, which makes it a pretty staggering failure. 

Actually market velocity is an incredibly important factor, and the fact the Wii U has sold at such a dismal rate through the majoirty of it's life means that it would seem to be sensible for Nintendo to cease production of it this year. 

Stopping production doesn't mean stopping support. Also, stopping production at the end of this year doesn't tell us how long the supplies will last, they could be enough for the whole 2017 or even later. Stopping production at the end of this year doesn't rule out an Autumn 2017 launch for NX, as Ninty normally behaves differently from Sony (and, after the first XB flop that forced it to kill its first console suddenly, MS too) and it sells and supports its old consoles for a shorter period after launching their successors, and if late life sales are as low as Wii U ones, a short period of sales and support of the old one after the new launch can be granted even stopping production quite early.

Why am I not surprised by this?

Apart from Nintendo had a string of financial loses while selling the Wii U. And 10 million almost certainly did not generate a net profit for Nintendo. 

There isn't a need to race to the next thing, but while their only console on the market is the Wii U, they are losing the market share to the competition. I guarentee that if they don't focus on VR, they are doomed. 

They have to move to NX at some point, the sooner they release, the sooner it can build a large (hopefully for Nintendo anyway) userbase. 

Beyond there are a lot of potential profits from new hardware -- accessorie sales, 3rd party licensing fees will likely spike hugely over the Wii U which basically earns Nintendo zero right now, potential profit from the hardware itself, etc. etc. 

Nintendo already confirmed that the Nikkei news is not true!

And it has been established that Nintento has denied Nikkei news in the past that turned out to be true.

well i go everywhere explor everything then re do it all in time attack mode. for dk.

and mk was like crack for me when it came out and i played it everyday for about 6 months after work.  non stop online battle lol

Yeah! And the Nintendo NX controller leak is real too :D

U think a random "leaker" on reddit is somehow in the same league as Nikkei? I dont understand how what you said is relevant to the discussion.