I think shifting gears towards a new console with WiiU this early is worthy of criticism, specially by Nintendo fans who bought the thing and now have support for it abruptly cut off. I guess there can be fans already pleased with what they have got for the system by now though, why not?
But of course, everyone has to hold their horses until the next console is announced, then we can say for certain if Nintendo aborted the WiiU way too early.
There is a fact though, with an almost null support from third party developers it makes Nintendo holder of the big responsibility of releasing games for their platforms, so they have to spread out their games.
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
