It will be hard no matter how good the E3 is for Nintendo. Hell, they could win it but they'll need more than just that even to get Wii U selling. The damage done cannot be removed easily. They need to get it out of "the line" for casuals. I believe it's too late for hardcore gamers that aren't Nintendo fans to start coming back. Could get some nostalgists by releasing games like Star Fox, but the casuals are gonna be the ones that make or break Wii U.

It will certainly be interesting, thats for sure! Heres hoping there will be release dates or else man... All dem turtles gonna be eaten!

There isn't a "hardcore" market for Wii U, period. I agree, it's going to be pretty difficult for Nintendo to jump back into the game with repetitive titles, inferior hardware, and a terrible lack of supporting third party developers. They just need some really convincing titles that fans actually want that aren't just rehashes of classic Nintendo.

All Nintendo fans want are those "rehashes." What Nintendo really needs are titles that appeal to people who are not Nintendo fans.

I'd say E3 is more important for Microsoft tbh. It's only a matter of time before the PS4 has twice the installed userbase of the One (the One is overtracked on here imo, Microsoft's silence on sales as opposed to shipments speaks volumes).

Titanfall hasn't saved the Xbox One, and I can't see their price cut and dropping Kinect doing a lot of good either. They've gone from having the least powerful machine for more money to the least powerful for the same amount of money. It isn't enough. And if Sony announce a small ($50) price cut of their own at E3 then Microsoft are pretty screwed.

How many final chances will the Wii U have?

How many "final chances" has the console had already? :S It's dead.

Ah, yes. Nintendo with their repetitive titles.

In stark contrast to their competitors who keep creating new IPs like Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo, Halo, Fifa and Resident Evil only to let them be replaced with other new IPs to keep things fresh.

Yep.
At E3 we will see if the WiiU will sell as low as 15 million or perhaps as high as 40/50 Milllion.

It's in the Lord's hands now *_*.

Casuals are gone. Nintendo NEED to sell like hell to their core... that will undo the damage from the Wii... maybe the only way to truly undo that damage and lay the ground work for the anticipated Nintendo Fusion in 2019 is to focus on making games for their core that shows of the Gamepad. They need a game that pulls off stuff the way Kirby's Magic Paintbrush and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption did.

I think Fatal Frame is gonna be a good starting place, and believe that games like Wind-Waker HD and Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut so thoroughly besting their already stellar old versions show the potential for other games. Then there are games like Zombi-U, which the Gamepad made vastly better than it could have been otherwise, but which are still rather deeply flawed as a game (it was a launch title to be fair, they're almost always trouble).

Its never gonna sell through the roof, but if Nintendo can make enough people wish they had a Wii-U then next their gen isn't going to have to suffer from its predecessor the way the Wii-U is gonna.