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Yeah, I have to agree... as far as saying that the Nintendo NX is not going to be a replacement of the Wii U, Nintendo is kind of sort of completely full of shit here.
But here is why: ever since the Wii (not just the Wii U, mind you, the original Wii), Nintendo has been trying to corner the market on so-called "casuals" (aka generally clueless, otherwise non-gamers). And for the most part, with the Wii at least, this strategy worked. However, these people, on the whole, seem to not understand the traditional console life cycle in the same way that long-time gamers do, i.e. "here's a new, better console five to ten years later, which will completely replace your current console entirely."[1] This is why, when the Wii U came out, a bunch of people who'd bought a Wii mistakenly thought that the Wii U was just yet another add-on for the Wii, rather than a new console entirely (especially since Nintendo gave it the asinine name of "Wii U" instead of calling it something completely different). These are the people Nintendo is trying to target with these bullshit statements about "not a replacement" or whatever. This is the problem Nintendo has, and this is why they're saying what traditional gamers think of as dumb bullshit like this now.
[1] - And, to be honest, even though that's been the de facto standard for decades, I can honestly not blame these people for not understanding why this is the way it is, because when you really stop and look at it, it truly is kind of dumb as hell. Computers, to a point, can be upgraded quite a bit, usually piecemeal, but consoles as a rule are merely replaced entirely.
