With the release of Super Smash Bros. U in the US the Wii U's weekly amount of units sold globally is at 149k the week ending November 22 and SBBU sold 481k in the span of two days globally. Don't get me wrong, this is fantastic and the fastest selling Wii U game to date. With all the news about how it is selling like crazy in Europe is great as well and I'm pretty sure it will sell well in Japan. I project global sales to be at around 1 million next week and I predict Wii U to be at around 450k units sold next week but is that enough? When you have the XB1 selling better than the Wii U when SSBU comes out worldwide that is not a good sign. The Wii U is struggling but not like how the Dreamcast struggled. The Dreamcast had no support from Sega but the Wii U has support from Ninty. Or does it?

My point from all this is just explaining how Nintendo should deal with the mess the Wii U caused. Yes Nintendo has yet to reveal Amiibo numbers but what else do they have? They have top quality games but they need to attract third parties, buy other companies,outsource their IPs and simply sell more units.

Attracting third parties is a hard one but acquisitions aren't. They have a decent amount of money. Enough to buy companies like Capcom or Ubisoft. They can outsource their IP's to companies like Platinum Games or Namco. They need to advertise more.

So I have two questions:

1) Why are more people buying PS4 and XB1?

2) What do you think Nintendo could do to turn this thing around?

EDIT: I had Wii U at 200k units for next week but I forgot about Black Friday so I changed it to 450k

they should drop the gamepad and make the console cheaper without losing any money. The Wii U is not competitive with costing 280 bucks, people wouldnt mind buying WiiUs for 150 to 200 to play exclusive games along their core machines.

I asked before but wouldn't going x86 like PS4 and Xbox One help in regards to third party multiplatform localisation?

Huge multiplats like GTA 5 would still sell well on Wii U and give it a hardware boost, so long as they released the same time as the other versions.

Too late to radically change the architecture now, but something to keep in mind for next gen.

"Enough to buy companies like Capcom or Ubisoft."

You do realize that buying a company isn't just as simple as going up to them as taking them over right? Even if either of those companies were willing to accept a buyout, the assets and the total cost of both of those companies would basically cripple Nintendo's financials...

What they need to do is make the most amount of profit with the least amount of spending while making the people that own a wiiU happy. They shouldn't pay third parties anything nor should they bother buying out huge companies such as Capcom or Ubisoft (specially not ubisoft, Jesus, that would be terrible). They should work with third parties for their next console and listen to them as to what they want so that when Nintendo launches their next console, it can have third party support.

Nintendo knows that they will be in last place this gen no matter what, there is no point is burning tons of cash while doing so. You really have to look at it from a business sense dude

All Nintendo really needs to do is release software on the Wii U. The biggest source of income is software sales, not hardware hence why console manufacturers are okay with selling a console at a loss.

As for the Wii U being outsold by the Xbox 1, this is irrelevant. I do believe as long as the Wii U brings in more than Nintendo paid out getting it to market, all else is irrelevant. It's the same reason a mom and pop restaurant can stay in business regardless of the fact that McDonald's and Starbucks sold more burgers and coffee respectively in the same time period.

Take all the aforementioned with a grain of salt though; I'm not business savvy and may be wrong.

I know that it will basically put a dent in Nintendos wallet and financials to buy such huge companies but I used the example to show how much money they have. As for the part about Ubisoft, that was also to show how much money they have. I do not like ubisoft so I would rather Nintendo buy another company.

IMO, I think they can turn it around. Ninty showed how the Wii U can gain momentum from one game which was MK8. The Wii U has potential but it is not being used. The Wii U is a great system and many owners will agree. I see as the price being a little high but Nintendo needs to make a profit as well. 

Why would you buy an underpowered console with less games when you can get a powerful console with all the multiplayer plus some exclusives and better online for $200 extra?

Price is not the problem. I remember that at some point of Gamecube's life its price was 99'99... and we all know how much that helped.

The problem (at least where I live, Spain) is that many people who normally buys Nintendo systems (children, families... thats the huge core) still don't know the console actually exists.

Nintendo has done an awful job in everything related to advertising Wii U. And they will feel the consequences until they change that. But fun fact: Iwata wants to spend even less money in advertising. So yeah...

because nintendo games have the highest quality and are realy fun?

Good. I'd much rather that money go towards polishing a game and making it great.