AC3 and BLOPS2 are not the type of games that will drive you to drop $350 on a Wii U, when you can just play it on your PS3 or Xbox360. Just because Nintendo haters love saying Nintendo doesn't have these games doesn't mean they will buy a Wii U when they do have them, especially not for their ports.
Nintendo, being as cheap and greedy as they have become, is just suffering from playing too safely. Just remember their words about how Wii continues to be a viable console, how Wii could co-exist with Wii U, how they repackaged a Wii for Cananda, shows, until Wii truely dies, they just won't turn on the spiggot for Wii U. From my post earlier today, you can see Wii U is the first console from Nintendo that came out while its predecessor isn't already dead. Gamecube handily beat N64, Wii handily beat Gamecube, but Wii still sold a crapload of units in 2012.
People talk about how Wii U undersold Wii in their launch years, but Wii U is also under selling Wii THIS year (2012). I really think Wii U was rushed out the door to just cash in on early adaptors, while the internal pipeline of Nintendo is really geared towards a later release during 2013. The most obvious numbers would be in their 4th quarter marketing expenses.
Despite everyone predicting doom, and Nintendo shares under pressure, 2012 marketing expenses was lower than the year prior. Again reflecting not an aggressive stance but a defensive one. Money talks, when we see Nintendo ramping up marketing expenses that's when the unit sales over that same period truly speaks to the product's potential.
