Yes. It's a cheap effort for Zelda fans like me. And the last FF was the remake which is Japan only. Kresnik explained well.

So, Sony going bankrupt and dragging the playstation brand down with them while Microsoft just abruptly shuts down the xbox division then?  Because if winning out out means what I think it means, barring that exact scenario, it's not happening.  Carving out a niche and becoming profitable in the long run, that's probably nintendo's best case scenario at this point.

I think MK8 and Zelda will do quite well, everything else no. So unfortunately it wont change the path of where the Wii-u is going.

Also this is the problem with line-ups. You say you couldnt find any better lineup in exclusives, and obviously the console has been out longer, and you are right if they are all 2014 thats a good number of exclusives, but none of them interest me at all... my son wants Zelda, but I just don't see the attraction of the console or its games. I guess I am not in the minority, and thats why Nintendo need 3rd party, but they also need to start going out of their comfort zone of the types of games they make. You could say Bayonetta 2 is that, but again i dont think many people are bothered. 

If Zelda/MK8 do not bump the console by much when they come out, then really they might as well consider dumping the console in two years time... unless they change their way of working, i dont see the next console doing that well either.

You are wrong.  Fatal Frame Wii is a remake, but not Japan only.

Your opinion is no better then mines.

Plato and Aristotle believed some had better opinions than others and they were right

Will Nintendo win out in the long run?

YTD - Wii U = 0.6m XB1 = 1.4m Ps4 = 3.1m....

No. It won't

At least try to sound smart, you sound angry that I made the thread.

As much as I'm looking forward to Wii U's exclusive software this year, some of those games will be 2015 or even 2016 in the case of Zelda U. Smash Brothers and Kart are releasing too far apart to have a serious impact on Wii U's ongoing sales rate, but I think they should do enough to at least hit Nintendo's 3.6 million target for the financial year and maybe exceed it by a bit (say ~10%, or around 400k).

I'm expecting Kart 8, Bayonetta 2, X, Hyrule Warriors and Smash globally this year from Nintendo, with Watch_Dogs and Sonic Boom the only confirmed 'major' third party titles. Presumably CoD, Skylanders and Disney Infinity will continue to feature. Nintendo's own NFC 'platform' should debut this year, but that could either mean unannounced software or integration into existing software, or both. I expect Fire Emblem v Shin Megami Tensei is 2015, Yarn Yoshi could even be vapour-ware, and I expect even if Nintendo announce a lot of new software at E3, they won't be titles for this financial year. I'm guessing big hitters like Zelda will be announced so that people continue to keep an eye on the system.

There will be high quality exclusives on Wii U this year, but it's not going to do anything drastic to the system's commercial performance. Nintendo will carve out a niche they can profit on, as they did with N64 and GameCube.

I don't think my opinion is objectively better, only realistic.  Wii U winning the generation at this point is practically in the realm of fantasy.