They've left the Wii U to die.

[Soundwave]

Locknuts said:

Soundwave said:

To any rational person it's fairly obvious the Wii U was going to be a "failed" console from a marketing/sales perspective for at least a year now.

So it's not like this is anything new.

That doesn't mean that you can't enjoy the games. I'm looking forward to Splatoon and Xenoblade X as much as any game this year and yes as much as Zelda. And shit a new Star Fox too. 

They could have done what was necessary at any time. They chose to let it die.

Unless they could triple the horsepower of the Wii U magically through osmosis ... no they couldn't do what was neccessary. PS3 as bumbled as it was early was still future proofed from before its release to be able to provide next-gen games for a 5-7 year period. 

All Sony had to do was bring the price down over time and they would eventually start gaining traction again. 

The Wii U was Nintendo simply betting the farm on the Wii formula again (last gen graphics slightly souped up + gimmick controller). Once the formula failed though they really had no recourse. Third parties who were busy transitioning to the PS4/X1 hardware spec weren't going to support a gimmick based Nintendo that would require a seperate game engine without the 100 million userbase fad/craze to go with it. 

So basically they were stuck up shit creek without a paddle and no help coming.