Why would or should they create another handheld? Abandoning the 3DS and Wii U this early would do horrible damage to their reputation of supporting their console. If they were going to announce a new handheld or console then I imagine developers would have leaked that info much earlier. If they were to abandon anything, I imagine it'll be the Wii U, after all it's 3DS sales that negate the losses on supporting the Wii U.
The 3DS is doing pretty good so far, selling about 14 million a year the first three years, and currently is the 2nd best selling piece of hardware worldwide after the PS4, and 3rd best for selling software behind the PS3 and Xbox 360; why would Nintendo give that up? Sure the DS sold better, but it was a phenomenal success, it would be hard to match that success. The DS had numerous factors that supported it, such as the success of the Wii paralleling the success of the DS and promoting strong name brand recognition and support, and new models help driving sales further with introduction of the DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL, and hell even new colors caused people to get a second or third DS. Nintendo skipped 3 steps and went straight to the 3DS XL, which probably hurt their milkage ability of their consumer base, and they don't have the parallel name brand support with the Wii U to help it, but all and all I think the 3DS is performing pretty good on its own. If they can sustain their annual sales trend for another 4 years they'll break over 100 million, which is pretty good, not DS good but still pretty good.
As for dropping the Wii U, I see that as more likely, but I don't see that happening at least until after two more attempts seeing if they get a spike during the holiday shopping season. I think Nintendo should stick it out on the console end, focus instead on getting third party support. The N64 and GameCube only lasted about 5 years selling 32 million and 22 million respectably. This is the territory I feel the Wii U is in, and like the others I think they'll support it at least to a decent life span.
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