First of, right now I think Activision is the best Wii U third party support.

Now don't get me wrong, they're not perfect, Call Of Duty games being confirmed as late as possible, no DLCs; besides, why no DLC ? Is it only because the userbase is lower than on other platform, or is it because the 32GB of the Wii U meaning people most likely have to buy a HDD and then the DLC ?

Anyway, so far Activision is supporting the Wii U more than the other, even the Wii and its huge graphical differences with 360/PS3, Activision got a lot of Call of Duty games released on it, I know it's been only two for the Wii U and like always it's unclear if the next one will come up, but with Amiibos and SkylandersActivision isn't letting the console down, Nintendo gave kudos to Activision and Disney for using the NFC and selling them well(while Ninty refused Activision's approach http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/nintendo-passed-up-the-opportunity-to-partner-up-with-activision-on-skylanders/ )

EA's  not supporting the Wii U(well they didn't try much), Ubisoft is giving up, THQ died, Hotline Miami devs trolling (

@mathieuwarnier Hotline Miami 2 is coming to the N64, get hyped.

— Hotline Miami (@HotlineMiami) April 3, 2014

What does this all do ? This forces Nintendo to be more creative and not rely on their success, people got tired of New Super Mario Bros, we got way too much of them. They find out Miyamoto's ideas alone won't help, he can't make it without third party covering it all up, leaving free space for talented dev to show up and bring something that is creative AND a new IP, hello Splatoon.
Nintendo tries to bring some third party again, last time it was Bayo, now they get Devil's Third.

Really, all this is pushing Nintendo to make better use of their studios, because they sure have enough to make awesome games, but their commercial success with the Wii made them grow overconfident and wrong.
Last year I thought Nintendo didn't get what was E3's audience, but this year they got it all right.

The lack of third party might  havedamaged sales so far, but it's only for the best, Nintendo is waking up to regain third party support, and they have a chance to succeed.

No it isn't. /thread

What an optimistic way of looking at things. Kudos. :3

3rd party support is going to get worse before it gets better for Nintendo. I'll be shocked if even 2 triple A third party exclusives make it to Wii U before it's demise.

Nintendo has lost trust with third parties and trust is a hard thing to build but an easy thing to break. They have a long road before anyone notices them again and it won't happen while the Wii U is still relevant.

sorry dude but it really isn't .

No. No it isn't. Nintendo consoles should offer a more diverse catalogue to convince newcomers, people who may not like the 1st party games enough to buy a console only for them. The more people buy the system, the more people will buy Nintengo games, the main source of income for Nintendo.

It may be alright for the Nintendo designers, but for Nintendo as a whole it truly crushes their hardware sales.

Honestly i agree with this. The intransigence and double-talk third parties went through from the early Wii U to how they actually supported Wii U, combined with the Wii's success at third parties' expense, should show Nintendo exactly the way forward. Sucking up to third parties is a fool's errand: kick 'em to the curb, keep expanding the eShop instead.

no, is not. It didn't and never will

Nintendo brought only one new IP splatoon but Sony doing many in AAA level all the time and trying to innovate with games like Hohokum, Helldivers, Resogun, Velocity 2X, Rime, Maurasaki baby etc., even with very good 3rd party support. So, first party alone is not enough and its just to provide a incentive to the gamers who own their hardware with some unique value but 3rd party gives huge library which is important.