I think everyone is missing something very important here, and that is everyone owns a Nintendo to play first party exclusives. If Nintendo does everything right with the Wii U (which so far it sounds like they are) and third party titles become a constant fixture on the system, Nintendo has pretty much cut out the middle men (Sony and Microsoft). There are just not enough first party games on the other systems that I would consider must owns to constitute buying a second system in the next generation. I see Nintendo running away with the next gneration, or at worst coming in a strong second.
"Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. When I am a child, creating, I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child."
Shigeru Miyamoto
