While Nintendo has been a very consistently profitable company, I think it was Iwata who at some point said that if the Wii failed to live up to even the Gamecube's sales, then they'd consider pulling out of console hardware. I don't know the figures but so far as I remember, while Gamecube was maintaining solvency, it wasn't pulling in significant profit. Most of Nintendo's profits were driven by handheld sales, so pulling sonsole hardware would have been fair enough really.
As for the Wii being under powered, I think that was more of a design choice. Nintendo realised that it didn't matter how mega powerful or stupidly underpowered they made their system, 3rd party developers would ignore them for the third time in a row. And they were right. Instead they concentrated on something that could differentiate them from the others both technically and on price, something within their technical expertise, and something they wouldn't have to worry about making losses on.
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