Absorbing Wii U architecture?

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I think really there's only a handful of games they absolutely would want to port to a future Nintendo platform

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Splatoon
Xenoblade X
Bayonetta 2
Zelda U
Captain Toad
Pikmin 3

I think these games had their sales potential most crippled by the Wii U's lack of market success.

Releasing them again on the next-gen portable/fusion device makes a lot of sense.

Also other games that are currently in development like SMT x Fire Emblem could be a dual release if porting is easy, and that makes sense too as this type of game would likely sell more on the handheld than Wii U.

For things like Mario Kart 8 and what not, I think they'll just let that be and move on to Mario Kart 9. Ditto for Hyrule Warriors 2 instead of porting HW1, etc. But they could anyway if they wanted to. But the above games may not be getting immediate sequels or had higher dev costs that maybe weren't recouped last time around. Xenoblade X for example doesn't look like a low budget game.