Its no secret that Wii U has had a pretty poor software schedule outside of the holidays when it comes to 1st party titles. Many of the games are of high quality but they are simply too few and too far between releases. Lets take a look at the 1st party retail schedule for Wii U from launch thru the end of this year (not including 2nd party games).

November 2012-New Super Mario Bros U+Nintendo Land

June 2013-Game & Wario

August 2013-Pikmin 3+New Super Luigi U

October 2013-Wind Waker HD+Wii Party U

November 2013-Super Mario 3D World

December 2013-Wii Fit U

February 2014-Donkey Kong Country:Tropical Freeze

May 2014-Mario Kart 8

July 2014-Wii Sports Club

Holiday 2014-Super Smash Bros U+Captian Toad:Treasure Tracker+NES Remix

As u can see Nintendo releases 3 retail 1st party games from Jan-Sept then about 3 more in the last quarter. Going into 2015, Nintendo already has about 10 1st party titles scheduled to release next year, of which 4 are slated for the first half of the year.

The problem is Nintendo is known for delaying games quite often ao i wouldnt be surprised to see some of those Q1-Q2 titles pushed back to the second half of the year and some of the titles with later release dates getting delayed to 2016.

I would like to see 2 games per quarter in Q1-Q3 then 3-4 release in the holiday quarter but im expecting to see something more like this.

Q1-Yoshi's Woolly World

Q2-Mario Maker

Q3-Splatoon

Q4-Xenoblade Chronicles X+Kirby and the Rainbow Curse+Mario Party 10+Zelda U

Star Fox+Project Guard+Project Giant Robot delayed to 2016.

Probably not. I think Nintendo will buy more developers and will hopefully fix it for their next console

what jizz said

I'm sure we won't see a repeat of the droughts for 2015.

no... no support for third parties... and games are being produce longer now compare before in which nintendo can compensate.

They openned a new studio last quarter, big investment on productivity. Next Level also needs to move up into more big title development in the West, and Nintendo needs to find a few more western studios to pick up.

That said, I thinkt they've finally gotten over their HD hurdle if the dev times on Yoshi and Splatoon are anything to go by (Splatoon is especially telling, as those young guys have basically made a full HD TPS in a little over a year) , and Captain Toad is working off the phenomenal 3DWorld engine which I hope they put to more use in the future. It will save them a lot of time and the engine is top-notch for their art-style, and will probably scale perfectly fine for their next console.

They need to buy Indie devs to make them Sports games since EA won't make them. They had REALLY good SPORTS games for SNES, N64, and even the GC...

Also they REALLY need to start REMAKING a lot of their games... The Last of Us Remake for PS4 sold over 1 million COPIES and it was a Remake of an ALREADY HD GAME!!! WTF!! You think people won't buy Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Majora's Mask, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, Metroid Prime Trilogy, and like even some of their SNES Classics like Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, and Earthbound remastered?? They'd make a TON of money from this... I would even say this can sway the Wii U in a positive direction by A LOT!

well like Nintendo has hinted at a few times now, im expecting them to fully unify their handheld and home consoles next gen to the point that both peices of hardware are nearly identical and will play all the same games as one another.

With the increase of developement time/costs for HD games (im also assuming it takes quite a bit more time/money to develop for 3DS compared to previous handhelds) Nintendo can no longer give strong support to two completely different peices of hardware and this would get even worse next gen as time/costs continue to increase.

The best solution is to unify these devices and essentially focus all their attention on one platform. Also this ensures that Nintendo's next console has all the hardcore Japanese 3rd party support and child-friendly western support that Nintendo handhelds are use to getting.

You cant compare a nintendo remake to a PS3 remake, a lot of gamers on PS4 hadnt PS3 so the sales were logical.

While most nintendo gamers had a GC or a Wii, so a remake  wont have the same effect than TLOU ( like we saw with WW HD)

3DS is Standard Definition so its cheap as dirt with regards to graphical fidelity once you have knowledge of how the 3D rendering works.

Once they unify their architecture, they can produce for both channels simultaneously with every single release, so even if the dev times go north (which they obviously have), they will still have a higher output.