IMHO if they could re-launch the Wii U without a tablet and a larger HDD 160GB-320GB with SM3DW and a Pro Controller for 199.99 I would buy it. They'll never do that.
The problems as I see them is that they have a tablet, and all their eggs went into that basket. You add in the mockishly doubting of 3rd party's to Ninty's cap? Well they all just turned their backs on Nintendo for GREENER/BLUER PASTURES so to speak. Nintendo thought the 3rd party's were bluffing them the whole time, nope. When Nintendo heard some 3rd partys tell them they didn't like it, they could have listened couldn't THEY have? Did they? Nope. Now Nintendo knows, and YOU the CONSUMER KNOW that the system will never be inticing to casuals or 3rd party's. This is a tablet the casuals don't desire at all, and NEVER will I.
This is the problem, they can't hop in a Delorean with MJF and pull this shit off. They can't get 3rd party's back with the WIi U. And NO system ever in the history of gaming will pull it off, not even the great NINTENDO. It's over.
Their realistic option? Drag the system on, however pathetically. Keep releasing whatever is in the pipeline, and set up a division that will build their next gen console that the hardcores want, because if they just want casuals that era is over and was swallowed whole by other companies. To get the hardcores they will need NEXT GEN truley NEXT GEN NINTENDO games and NEXT GEN 3rd Party titles, With XB1 and PS4 already paving the road I see them to late to that game and to late to the current game any way you slice it. Nintendo has cornered themselves in. I don't think they can even get out alive now. It's like they have terminal stage 4 cancer.
They have to partner with Sony or go 3rd party. They won't, and they will ride out the Wii U and try to keep hold of the portable market the best they can until they're pushed out there as well. I say 5 years of straight losses is definetly their path. Then they change, but what do they change to? It doesn't matter they will simply sell out, and retire or die rich old game makers/marketers/pr men regardless. It was a fun ride Nintendo, but you blew it with the Wii U completely. There's no going back now. GG.
