Nintendo Ending Wii U Production Later This Year, Says Report (polygon.com)

An anonymous reader cites a Polygon article: Nintendo will end production on its Wii U console sometime in 2016. The console, which has sold poorly compared to its wildly successful predecessor, debuted in 2012. According to Nikkei's report, Nintendo has already stopped manufacturing certain Wii U accessories. The outlet, which has a good record of reporting on Nintendo's unannounced plans, reports that while Wii U hardware is being discontinued, a launch of the company's next platform -- codenamed NX -- is not guaranteed this year. Nintendo plans to unveil its next-generation console sometime in 2016. The company launched its first mobile app, Miitomo, last week.

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[Adriax]

The Wii did very well in the console arena, and both Sony and MS scrambled to copy the motion controls. They just didn't amp the Wii U up enough to continue competing this generation.
Hand held arena is still nintendo for the discrete gameplay device. Smartphones may be ubiquitous but you still see people putting a lot of playtime into their 3DS.

I've seen people demand nintendo drop out of the hardware business ever since the sega genesis, and it's always a fanboy of the competition who hates "kiddy nintendo" but drools over the games they have.