@Scisca:
What your point was previously, correct me if I am wrong, that the Wii U has no games for the "gamer" demographic. Well, it does...less so for the closed minded gamer demographic but there are games for the gamer demographic. There is Pikmin, Wonderful 101, 3D World, ZombiU, Rayman Legends and a decent number of ports. What do you want exactly? yes, some of these games are skewed towards the "everyone" demographic but a gamer who is too "hardcore" to play games marketed by everyone is more flawed as a gamer than the console/Nintendo is. I believe that there are plenty of people out there who would enjoy the wii u but similar to the wii, ignorance is running rampant and hype is dominating the market so many quality products get overlooked (this obviously isn't exclusive to nintendo hardware).
Secondly, you can't discredit ports as unimportant, look at the sales for PS4/One ports as you have. Gamers arent receptive to ports on Wii U though...and whose fault is that? Its the fault of the gamers, as stated above. Yes, some of these ports are inferior, but whose fault is that? Well either gamers or the companies making them. They dont see a market because gamers arent receptive (negative feedback loop). The companies make worse games, so people don't buy them, so companies have more reasoning to not make good games etc. Third parties have never truly supported the Wii U and felt through the market though. Instead they add to the thought that 3rd party games are inferior and decimate their sales potential for the entirety of the console generation and beyond. The blame can be tossed around but who doesn't it fall on? Nintendo. Why should nintendo get blamed for this? They are pumping out a lot of great games, they are doing their part. People have constantly blamed Nintendo for the faults of 3rd parties but when has it ever been Nintendo's job to help 3rd parties make good games when they are perfectly capable of doing that themselves.
My point is that the games are there, the gamers are there but the Wii U still doesn't sell. You attribute it to a lack of game variety but I believe that is false. I think its a combination of the stigma surrounding Nintendo and the superior, elitist, "cool" mindset of gamers. This closeminded-ness is what drives gamers to buy the same Call of Duty games year after year, the same madden games etc. What can be done to fix this? Well not very much. What can Nintendo do to compensate? Sell their souls and start making shitty "cool" games? Im not quite sure what you are hoping Nintendo does. There are some people who just don't like Nintendo and that is totally fine but to say that they aren't doing their part backing the Wii U with games is BS. Nintendo has repeatedly pumped out the best first party lineup of games, year after year. Even in a slow year like this one they still mananged to pump out the long awaited Pikmin 3, one of the best mario games ever, a beautiful HD remake of one of the best 3D Zeldas and they funded one of the most underappreciated games of the year in Wonderful 101 and that is just on the Wii U. Wii U will continue being the black sheep of the console market while gamers complain about microtransactions and online passes or whatever the next money sucking cash grab is while simultaneously pleasuring themselves to 8GB RAM and explosions. Gamers need to get their heads out of their asses and start educating themselves (once again, not just vouching for Nintendo games but all the games that try to maintain their decency but get buried in the smoke and mirrors of the "AAAA" games market). What can Nintendo do without losing what makes them great?
@Max: I suppose I was wrong on that one, I dont understand how that figure makes any sense but alas...I still standby my statement that the Wii U is currently far from exorbitantly overpriced though.
