It seems to me that at this point the 360/PS3 might outlast the Wii-U, that is, have support and games still coming out for them after the Wii-U's game library ends. It takes a few assumptions to reach this conclusion at this point, such as:
-If the NX does come out a year from now as its rumored and it is a console, than it is likely a Wii-U replacement/successor and Nintendo will immediately shift focus to producing games for the NX, which it seems like they have already begun doing after this years E3 (heck it seems Wii-U might lose support way earlier than a year from now given the release schedule, it might be done at the start of 2016). 3rd party is all but dead on Wii-U right now so I doubt they'll support it after NX drops and Nintendo rarely if ever releases games for older systems after the new ones launch, actually Nintendo is worse than that because they tend to abandon their systems a fair amount of time before their new ones launch letting them die out in a final drought.
-Having said that, the PS3 and 360 still have decent release schedules for this year and going into 2016, and its not a stretch at all to imagine games still being released for them (mostly ports from newer systems probably, but support nonetheless) a year from now. I will admit, I'm not to keen on the 360/PS3's release schedule for 2016 so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong there.
If the 360/PS3 outlast the Wii-U it would be a truly astounding statement as to those 2 consoles and the actual quality and strategy behind the Wii Brand (both Wii and Wii-U). I mean, the 360/PS3 have already looong outlasted the original Wii and now we're coming up on the possible successor to the Wii-U, NX, and those systems from 2005&06 are still kicking! It would also again raise the question as to what gen the Wii-U truly was a part of (people already seem confused as to what gen NX will be apart of). While Wii-U didn't launch at the same time as the 360/PS3, its posed to die around the same time they do, possibly earlier, and I don't know about others, but for me that is further evidence that it truly was a gen behind the 4/One and NX will be the true competitor to current systems.
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