It is really too early to read much into the Wii U sales, and until we see what Nintendo is releasing in 2013 I think it is difficult to say that they abandoned the "casual gamer" ...
At the same time, the 3DS is selling very well in general and most of the "casual" games Nintendo released for the Nintendo DS have seen sequels for the 3DS ...
With that said, I think Nintendo is trying to take advantage of their year lead, get third party publishers to release decent "core" titles for the Wii U, and then use the sales of those titles to argue for future development before publishers move all their development teams to next generation projects. I could be wrong but I suspect that it is easier to argue for a good version of the next Call of Duty game if it sells more than 500,000 units on a new system and the developers who produce the title haven't completely re-tooled for PS4/XBox 720 development.
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