One of the problems that Nintendo has is that they make their money as a game company unlike Sony and MS. Nintendo does not have the luxury to sell at a loss hoping to recoupe their losses with game sells. Nintendo cannot go into the red and have other products or divisions bail them out. The analyst is actually kind right. When Sony entered the market they pretty much bought their way in just like MS. MS and Sony give developers incentive to keep developing for their system by marketing their games and paying the cost for that or giving them money for exclusive (MS tactic that Sony now does as well).
There are a lot of tactics that Sony and MS do today that Nintendo does not have the luxury to do and this is causing the platform to be considered the last one to support unless the userbase is large. Its a real problem for Nintendo and they will have to come out with an answer since the WiiU isn't selling so support will not be as great.
Anyway, with all the new games coming out for the WiiU, I am seriously thinking about getting one instead of the PS4 and X1 first. I believe once more AAA games come out for the WiiU, they will start to sell pretty good. This gen is way from being over and plenty of things can change but Nintendo does have to do some immediate changes to get support going properly.
I personally would not want to see Nintendo go 3rd party. Nintendo really is a game company and they are probably the biggest risk taker on hardware which is what I like.
